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Originally Posted by Originalist
I would never dream of invoking anything while baptizing other than the name of Jesus Christ. To leave out the invoking of his name in that process is at best a misunderstanding of his original intent, and at worst a gross error.
Having said that, I do not believe God withholds forgiveness from the repentant sinner who has responded to the conviction of the Spirit based on the ignorance of the one baptizing. Remember, Peter said in Acts 5 that God gives the Holy Ghost to " them that obey him". If he bestows the gift of the Holy Ghost on someone who received what we consider to have been a less than perfect baptism, then we can say with confidence that God counts them still as having obeyed the gospel. |
I disagree. People received the gift of the Holy Ghost in
Acts 10 and God still demanded Peter to baptize them to such a degree that He gave Perter a vision about unclean animals being taken into the body. Baptism was still necessary for the them to fulfill the gospel. I cannot say one is lost without that, since the bible does not deal with it in that fashion, but it must be done to fulfill righteousness.
Paul also dealt with proper obedience when he wrote
Romans 10 and said one cannot believe unless one SENT preaches the truth. To believe and yet not have believed the truth that a true minister preaches is to not really believe what
Acts 5 was speaking about.
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