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Originally Posted by Rico
It seems to me you have the order of things mixed up. Baptism follows repentance, not the other way around. Also, faith comes before repentance.
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I think you somewhere are missing something.
Faith is the postive response to God's Word thus we repent to Christ which is to be united with him in baptism. Faith is from the very beginning but people fail to realize that faith extends beyond mental assent or acceptance but is the reactive response. Thus faith can be defined by repentance unto baptism. It's all postive response to God's Word. Faith turns us from our past toward Christ. Thus we seperate ourselveS away from past to unite with him. Which is in Baptism. We cannot go turn away without turning to. Thus by turning to we must have to unite with it. Again as scrpture says that is in baptism. Yes I agree faith and repentace preceed baptism.
NOTE: I am using repentance as a direction in which we move. "Repent" = Turn away or turn about etc...
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