New Birth

[Jermyn Davidson]

Originally Posted by kclee4jc

Do you believe that Acts 2:38 as the New Birth experience is the only hope for salvation??

This question implies that even if a person does everything right IAW your understanding of Acts 2:38, they could still be lost.

Originally Posted by kclee4jc

That repentance from sin is necessary for salvation and a prerequisite of a genuine Holy Ghost baptism?

"Now that I have given up smoking. I've given up whore-hopping, I have stopped cursing. I've stopped beating my wife and kids. Now will you please save me God?"

You get saved and then your life changes. The Bible does not prescribe that you change your life so that you can get saved.

Originally Posted by kclee4jc

That baptism must be performed by total immersion in water...

because we have to make sure that our belief system allows absolutely no Grace for situations where full immersion is not a possibility for the person who is calling on the Name of the Lord.

Originally Posted by kclee4jc

with the name of Jesus Christ being spoken over the individual being baptized

Your qualifier actually contradicts one of the commands of scripture (at least as it is translated) for us. Who should call on the Name of Jesus when getting baptized-- the baptizer or the baptize?

Originally Posted by kclee4jc

and that it is for the remission of sins?

Baptism saves in the fact that it is a reflection of a good conscience towards the Lord-- something that a person can't have UNLESS THEY ARE ALREADY SAVED.

Originally Posted by kclee4jc

That the baptism of the Holy Ghost is ALWAYS accompanied by speaking in other tongues,

No. These signs shall follow them that believe. "Believing" is the point of salvation and the Bible plainly states that there will be multiple signs that follow those who believe.

Originally Posted by kclee4jc

and is absolutely essential for salvation?

Speaking in other tongues is just as essential as handling poisonous serpents. Neither one are ESSENTIAL for salvation, but both are signs that will follow the believer, in certain circumstances.

Originally Posted by kclee4jc

That unless you have obeyed Acts 2:38 in this manner then you are not a part of God's church,

Wrong.

Originally Posted by kclee4jc

that this is the only door of entrance into the Kingdom of God?

Again, all other Christians are lost EXCEPT the ones who believe the report of a guy who had a vision in the middle of the night at a camp meeting somewhere in California near the beginning of the 20th century...