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baptized by John? but then there is in Acts, a record of people who are called believers, who had received John's baptism and didn't know anything about the Spirit being given through another baptism. there is a record of Christ breathing on each of them saying, receive the Spirit - and...

for me, a young boy at a camp who sat in his bunk thinking and praying all one summer night, it seemed very personal, and it also seemed like i knew just how i should go about things. so i did not say anything to anyone about what had happened in my heart, and waited until camp was over, and the...

baptism therefore proves nothing about salvation, but faith in the true gospel is greater. unbelief certainly condemns. lack of baptism is uncertain - and no one knows a man's heart but God alone

and sometimes the silly questions are just to illustrate that some of the obvious answers to them are equally silly - a dialogic device, that's all :)

i honestly wonder if this belief is still around

so 100% i am going to tell everyone who believes to be baptized, and 100% i am not going to condemn anyone who believes but isn't yet baptized

nor i so i think the best approach is caution, and faith in the faithfulness of God to those who believe Him

sorry, but you didn't answer the question. does this mean you believe you can tell if someone is saved or not by whether they have been water baptized? or does this mean you have no idea if baptism is valid or not, only God knows? so that baptism doesn't prove anything? you do believe anyone...

yes but the questions i have asked you. do you have any answer?

i should add, too, that it was at this time infant baptism began to be practiced. child mortality was high, and parents, wanting their children to enter the kingdom, would baptize them if they were sick and dying, even if they were not old enough to speak. what was being taught was that...

it's certainly related to the subject; if water baptism proves salvation, then mankind can decide who belongs to God and who doesn't, because we can see that - and salvation therefore is an outward thing, not a thing pertaining to the inner man. but remember God said that He tells mankind not...

it was a widely held belief in the church at a certain time that baptism was the only way sins were forgiven - so much that people would not be baptized until they were about to die because they worried they may sin afterwards and then lose their salvation, because they could only be baptized...

OK, what does prove a person is saved? is it something people can observe or is it something only God can?

welcome to the bdf hahaha and some will be back in two years with new usernames and the same arguments :LOL:

so if a person hears false teaching and responds to lies by being baptized, are they saved?