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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
Having this conversation in times past, I asked Bro. Epley if he had a problem with the person being baptized speaking their own words and he said that he did not have a problem with that at all - just for the record.
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Scripture teaches that it's the person being baptized speaking the words, not some goober who calls himself a preacher or bishop or some such thing intoning proper words in some sort of modified Romanist ritual of baptismal regeneration.
Act 22:16 And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
Additionally, water isn't the redemptive element of the individual, the blood of the Lamb is. The blood of the Lamb is something that oneness Pentecostals seldom mention when speaking of salvation though. It's almost always the holy oneness trinity of tongues, water baptism with a man saying the proper words over the individual and a list of standards. Where is the blood, the cross, the sacrifice of the Lamb, the perfect High Priest in oneness pentecostal salvation theology. Alas, it all takes a back seat to tongues and baptism and standards most of the time.
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