baptism

I argue all the time, on the internet, that baptism isn't required for salvation. Nevertheless, my concern is this. By arguing that baptism isn't necessary, I seem to be suggesting that baptism isn't valuable or even desired. More importantly, most discussions of baptism seem focused on the...

Grace And Peace, Precious friend(s). Praying this will {Finally, for some} Scripturally alleviate Most or ALL of the Confusion of Various water traditions and rituals. And, IF God even requires it today! Amen? Note: All Scripture references Are KJB! First, this Outline: (A) The Twelve (12)...

Grace And Peace, Precious friend(s). Have you Prayerfully And Carefully Considered!: Rightly Dividing God's WORD {All Scriptures Are KJB} Of Truth? "Example" of God’s leaders/numbers / Salvation/commissions in: His TWO Different Programs: LORD JESUS, we pray that You Would Help our...

The word tells you that to receive the Light of the word you have to "spiritually discern" the word. However.... there is this also... = When "rightly dividing the word"......there are a few non spiritual implementations that are key to allowing you to not misapply a verse's context. Every...

My husband and 4 kids moved to a small town in Tennessee a few years ago. We had always attended Calvary Chapel but none here. We have tried a bunch of churches but they always reject me because I was not baptized properly. I was born to parents that actively hated the church God, Jesus w...

If we're saved permanently on earth after being born again then why does the bible say in phil 2:12 you have 2 work out ur salvation wiv fear and trembling. The race is not over yet theirs many hurdles 2 climb, many trials and tribulations you have to go through. eccl 3:12 1 peter 4:12. Jesus...

The Father’s word and grace saved me The basis of this discussion and Bible Study is John 6:36 – 6:58 There are other verses for this subject although I chose this portion of scripture because it captures more of the essence of how one is saved and what it means to be ‘in Christ,' which really...

Here’s a recent debate between the protestant calvinist radio show personality Matt Slick and a traditional Catholic. Its two part videos. The topic was baptism. So who do all of you believe did the best job at presenting biblical truth? Here’s the 1st video to the beginning of the debate…...

Some denominations baptize babies. Catholics Orthodox - Eastern and Oriental Reformed Lutheran Anglicans Presbytarians Methodists Nazarenes source: Infant baptism - Wikipedia John the Baptist baptized adults that wanted to have their sins forgiven. Some denominations baptize adults as an...

The obedience test for Jesus’ sign of commitment Why was Jesus immediately tested after performing his symbolic gesture of baptism as his commitment to his Father to die for mankind’s’ sins? Static words and thoughts and gestures communicating true commitment and faith are empty without true...

I saw this today on Facebook through one of the many pastors I follow. (If you happen to have seen this, let's leave names of people and churches out of it, please.) It raises the question, at least for me, in that is this baptism below valid? The pastor remarked that today an individual was...