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Originally Posted by TheLegalist
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We take upon Christ in baptism We come into covenant and partake of his death/blood/sacrifice then. A person cannot come to God at baptism without a turned heart. A person presents themselves just as the scripture talked about presenting your gift before the altar. Your gift(yourself in case of baptism) cannot be repsented with enmity or defiled of heart. When you ar baptized to be united in death and covenant your heart must be sold out to him with a complete turning. Baptism is seen as the altar or the place of sacrifice/death which can also be "to assimilate/buried" by which in which Christ is united with us. Thus we are in covenant with him.
gotta go for the day.
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You know, I don't think T.L. is "far from the Kingdom" here. It just seems that he's got this mindset that his own pattern of articulation is the only oracle of God for us today.
It would help if his pattern of articulation was a bit more plain and a bit less ornery; but that can probably be said about any of us.
The metaphor of baptism "as the altar or the place of sacrifice/death" (above) is quite problematic however. The cross is the correct "altar or the place of sacrifice/death." (See
Matthew 27:35-51 with
Ephesians 2:13-18; also
Colossians 1:20-23;
Hebrews 9:11-28).
Such obvious misstatements seem to be motivated by an overwhelming desire to promote the "Three Stepper" agenda. I wonder how prevalent this already is among the G.O.B.'s.
Frankly, I am astounded. Is the desire to remove the cross from Christianity so strong that we now have folks who want to make an "altar of sacrifice" out of the Garden Tomb and count the cross of Christ an "unworthy thing?"
Hebrews 10:28-39
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