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Originally Posted by ILG
Who is actually doing the hair splitting? I think it is splitting hairs to say you can repent, be baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost and still be lost because the preacher did not say the right things. For it is by grace you are saved by faith.
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Next person I baptize, I will just baptize him or her the in the name of the Lord Buddha.
Paul was told to "call upon the name of the Lord" when he was baptized in
Acts 22:16.
"Call upon" is the Greek word
epikalalolei (sp?) and is reflexive. It means to summon by name and invoke over one's self out loud.
This idea that the name of Jesus in water baptism is just a technicality or that a person can be made a covenantal member of the Body of Christ without immersion into that Name isn't in agreement with the Scriptures.
Which is fine, if that's your thing. I hope we all make New Jerusalem. I can disagree without animosity.
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