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Originally Posted by houston
Esaias,
Do you believe that those who are baptized will be lost because they do not believe that THAT is when/where their sins are forgiven?
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Not sure about that one. Still studying it.
I also don't think the apostles thought in terms of 'when EXACTLY are one's sins forgiven?' like we seem to be fixated on.
I am trying to change my paradigm to be more biblical, ie more like the world-view the apostles had. I have found that many of the 'issues' we have nowadays in matters of religion would have seemed quite strange and foreign to the apostles and the first generation of Christians. There are some things the Bible doesn't address. Not because God 'overlooked something', and not because He thinks them to be unimportant, but more likely because we are on a different page than He is. We create issues where none need to be.
Why is there an issue about
this? I cannot fathom why someone would spend so much effort trying to prove baptism doesn't save us, sins aren't washed away in baptism, baptism is a 'work', baptism doesn't really do much of anything... what's the point? Such arguments only seem to support someone who wants to REFUSE TO BE BAPTISED. Whoever heard of a believer in Jesus who REFUSED TO BE BAPTISED?
It's like finding an answer to a question never asked, or a solution to a problem that doesn't actually exist...
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