That's the issue here. Many of you think that those to accept baptism think that all one has to do is be baptized. There is a process before baptism. You have to believe and accept Christ first. You have to confess that you are a sinner. Baptism comes after. When we are baptized we are being buried with Christ and being raised(from the water) as a new creature. A child of God. Our sinful life is gone. We are officially in Christ. You can't become an actual kid again, but you become a spiritual babe. A born again Christian.
This is probably a bad way to look at it this way but baptism is kind of life an initiation process. You have accepted Christ, you admit you are a sinner, but one needs to be baptized to be officially part of the body.
This is probably a bad way to look at it this way but baptism is kind of life an initiation process. You have accepted Christ, you admit you are a sinner, but one needs to be baptized to be officially part of the body.
For John truly baptized in water, but you shall be baptized in holy Spirit. . . .
I am not even saying that water baptism is wrong - I am just saying that for the chruch, the body of Christ there is one baptism and that is by the holy Spirit.
Eph. 4:4-6 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
How is God in Christ in us? via the gift of holy spirit