06-04-2009, 04:16 PM
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Re: Is baptism essential unto salvation?
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Originally Posted by Sam
As Howard Goss, first General Superintendent of the UPC, stated in an article that appeared on pages 6 and 10 of the June 1954 Pentecostal Herald:
The blood and power of the Lord Jesus is the only source of regeneration or the New Birth. Water baptism alone has no power to remit sins, else we could baptize infants as do the Catholics. The Roman Catholic teaches regeneration by water baptism, but it is not according to the Word of God. A candidate for baptism in water should be baptized BECAUSE THE BLOOD has cleansed, remitted, forgiven his sins, and not in order to get them remitted, as WATER ALONE CANNOT WASH AWAY SINS. The old hymn goes:
What can wash away my sins,
Nothing but the Blood of Jesus.
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I doubt if we would see something like this in the Pentecostal Herald today
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Howard Goss didn't believe the message. 
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