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Re: Baptism: Essential or Not
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Originally Posted by deacon blues
I'm not anti-baptism. I am pro-baptism. We mention it almost every Sunday. I just believe justification takes place at faith. After you repent and become a child of God, you should be baptized. Not for justification, but to follow Christ's example, to obey His command to be baptized, to identify with His burial, to publicly declare your faith in the blood of Jesus.
The scripture makes it clear we are forgiven and cleansed at repentance. We are saved by grace through faith.
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And yet here we are with the question of it being essential. So the consensus is it's essential for Christians to be baptized, but not for salvation. I think what is confusing is many try to add to Acts 2:37.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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