If i say am christian..

[Ingledsva]

That is exactly true. Jesus gave his life to save us. He does not need the help of a cup or pool of water. Spiritual rebirth (born again) when we accept Christ is what actually and noticably washes away sin. Water has never forgiven a single sin. Water baptism is a outward sign of an internal event. It also reveals to the congregation that one has been saved. It is ceremonial. Even John the Baptist said his water baptism is not what saves that it is Christ who was coming that would truly baptise with the Holy Spirit and that is what his water baptism pointed to. It is also what OT animal sacrifice pointed to. The blood of goats and rams only symbolically pushed forward the sins of Israel year by year until Christ came and those sins were actually done away with permenantly.

Well, He didn't actually do away with the sin - he did away with the sin offering - by becoming the ultimate human sin offering sacrifice - once and for all. People still sin. Supposedly if you accept him - as the sin offering - your sins are white as snow.

 

[1robin]

Well, He didn't actually do away with the sin - he did away with the sin offering - by becoming the ultimate human sin offering sacrifice - once and for all. People still sin. Supposedly if you accept him - as the sin offering - your sins are white as snow.

I mean he dealt with the reproductions of the sins of the faithful not that he removed sin its self from the world.