Do All Religions Lead To God?

[bytheblood]

There is only one baptism as scripture states. Water immersion. Started with Johns and carried forward from there through Acts such as in the conversion of the Jews on the day of Pentecost and the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8, clearly water. And by water immersion we get the indwelling of the Spirit, not baptism of the Spirit, but it's indwelling. There is no baptism of the Spirit as was recorded in Acts 2 and 10.

That all goes to naught if the person believing has not been BAPTIZED into the body of Christ, he is NOT saved. In regards to your statement of there being only one baptism, what do you do with Hebrews 6:2 " Of the doctrine of BAPTISMS, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgement." ? The Holy Spirit baptized ME into the body of Christ, my Pastor baptized ME in water and Jesus baptized ME in the Holy Spirit, with evidence of speaking in tongues. I'll take an experience over a doubtful theory any day.

 

[DJT_47]

That all goes to naught if the person believing has not been BAPTIZED into the body of Christ, he is NOT saved. In regards to your statement of there being only one baptism, what do you do with Hebrews 6:2 " Of the doctrine of BAPTISMS, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgement." ? The Holy Spirit baptized ME into the body of Christ, my Pastor baptized ME in water and Jesus baptized ME in the Holy Spirit, with evidence of speaking in tongues. I'll take an experience over a doubtful theory any day.

I'll take the scriptures over your experience. The fact is, we're baptized into Christ at which time we receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, the actual Spirit itself.

Acts 2:38

38Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

And, all things written 2000 yrs ago do not necessarily have the same application today as they did then. Context is important in this regard relative to your Hebrews 6 comment.

 

[DJT_47]

"Baptized into Christ" does not mean water baptized into the body of Christ. That is only accomplished through Spirit baptism. (1 Corinthians 12:13) Now in what "sense" would a believer be "water baptized into Christ?" In the same "sense" that the Israelites were "baptized into Moses.." (1 Corinthians 10:2) The Israelites were not literally water baptized into the body of Moses and there is little dispute that being "baptized into Moses" signified the open allegiance and public identification of the Israelites with Moses as their leader. Moses was formally recognized as the leader of the covenant people. Water baptism signifies our allegiance and public identification with Christ as our Savior, so it would only be in that sense.

Your scriptures mean and prove nothing other than your continued lack of scriptural understanding. Read the actual Greek of 1 Cor 12:13. Its not by but rather in one Spirit: the Greek word is 'en' which translates as "in". The correct translation is "in one Spirit", not "by one Spirit".

And your Moses comparison/analogy means what? What it really means is they were immersed in the cloud. You didn't even read it right. It says "unto" Moses" not into Moses. Wake up!

2And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;