Mt 28:19,20; Mk 16:15,16; Jn 3:5; Acts 2;38; ROo 6:3-5; Gal 3:27 etc are all water baptism. The bible does not promise anyone today baptism with the Holy Spirit. For that idea is made up by those that are trying to find a way to get around the necessity of water baptism.
1) No one who is unforgiven can be saved
2) Water baptism is where God remits/forgives sins
3) Therefore no water baptism = no forgiveness of sins.
1) No one who is unforgiven can be saved
2) Water baptism is where God remits/forgives sins
3) Therefore no water baptism = no forgiveness of sins.
Jesus came to this earth to teach salvation by grace through faith. Jesus never ascribed any salvitic merit to water baptism. Jesus taught against cleaning the outside and leaving the filth on the inside.
Jesus breathed upon the disciples in the upper room the Holy Spirit that they might have eternal life. John 20 Paul clarified the quickening of the dead soul by the Holy Spirit in Ephesians 2.
You ought to be embarrassed by this heretic doctrine you espouse but alas you are hardened against any wooing of the Holy Spirit.
Believing that which is unbiblical no matter how ardently it is believed accounts for no virtue and no merit.
For the record none are against water baptism for the believer only that it is required to be saved. Acts 8 clearly demonstrates that Philip and the eunuch entered into water baptism after belief not before and not for the purpose of salvation. Water baptism is for the believer as a step on the path of sanctification not salvation.
For the cause of Christ
Roger