Dogknox20
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The empowered Church at Pentecost baptizes!John the Baptist was the church?
Not.
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The empowered Church at Pentecost baptizes!John the Baptist was the church?
Not.
.No, in fact the verse that people use to promote salvation by baptism says it's not the water but a clear conscience that saves.
"and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,"
The water symbolizes baptism? What baptism? The cleaning of the heart and conscience... not the washing of the body. Baptism just means submersion and it's used in several different ways in scripture.
We are saved by being in Christ not be being in water. If water could save, the first bath you ever got would insure your place in heaven.
The water is a symbol not the thing itself. It's actually a superstition to make a symbol have actual power. Like thinking crossing yourself actually protects you somehow. Or wearing a cross for protection from evil.
Without being dunked.
Ok. They baptized believers.The empowered Church at Pentecost baptizes!
No, belief does. I can quote dozens of clear verses that state that vs your misreading of a couple to make them say water saves.ALL Added to Christ are saved! Baptism ADDS the Christian to the risen body of Christ!
No one kisses my ring, so no. I don't wear a pointy hat either.Wildswanderer fact is it makes each person into a little pope!
Baloney. He went to heaven.The Thief went to heaven "A GARDIN" he did not enter the KINGDOM he died before he could be ADDED to the Body of Jesus by the empowered Church!
Baloney. John was saved by faith in Jesus.John the Baptist was GREATER then the THIEF but he also was NOT in the KINGDOM he also ended up in a Garden! John the Baptist also died before he could be ADDED to the risen Body of Jesus!
So Nicodemus was supposed to know something he knew nothing about? Jesus chastised him for not being a fortune teller and knowing the future? Jesus told him something he should have known as a scholar of the Torah. That was that spiritual cleansing is what brings us into the kingdom. Not any ritual.Baptism saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. All who died before the Empowered Church could baptize did not enter the KINGDOM!
5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.
.So Nicodemus was supposed to know something he knew nothing about? Jesus chastised him for not being a fortune teller and knowing the future? Jesus told him something he should have known as a scholar of the Torah. That was that spiritual cleansing is what brings us into the kingdom. Not any ritual.
Matthew 11:11Baloney. John was saved by faith in Jesus.
Circumcision was also a sign. People were always saved by faith, not signs..
Colossians 2:11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
(above) Paul notes that baptism has replaced circumcision! Paul refers to baptism as “the circumcision of Christ” and “the circumcision made without hands.” In the Old Testament, if a man wanted to become a Jew, he had to believe in the God of Israel and be circumcised. Circumcision ADDED the infant to the Jewish nation!
Baptism ADDS people to the Family of God!
3000 were ADDED to the Holy Body of Jesus on the first day of Pentecost BY BAPTISM!
3000 were SAVED BY BAPTISM the first day of Pentecost!
Buried with Jesus in baptism, MEANS we CANNOT die a second time! IF...
Wildswanderer if we have died we cannot die again it means we will live forever! NO ONE...
Wildswanderer no one can die two times! You can't even kill a stinking no good for nut-in stinking dog twice! One DEATH is allowed.. Jesus died NEVER EVER to die again.. IF...
Wildswanderer if you are ADDED to the risen body of Jesus by baptism you will live forever! Baptism SAVES YOU!
40 With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” 41 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.
Wow that's a twisted interpretation.Matthew 11:11
Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than John!
Wildswanderer did you see it? least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than JOHN! John did NOT enter the Kingdom! He was NOT baptized by the EMPOWEED CHURCH at Pentecost!
5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.
Least in the KINGDOM is greater then John!
John was among those born of women! John was NOT among those born of God!
John did NOT enter the KINGDOM because he was NOT re-Born by Water & Spirit!
Wildswanderer no one can enter the kingdom unless they are born of water and the Spirit. John was NOT born of water and Spirit!
..Circumcision was also a sign. People were always saved by faith, not signs.
The New Testament Greek word for baptize is baptizo,which means to immerse. In the previous verse (Romans 6:3), Paul taught that when you received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you were spiritually immersed into Christ’s death. Now in this verse, Paul elaborates on the spiritual meaning and impact of this divine truth.
Paul states that when we were born again, we were buried with Christ through spiritual immersion (baptism) into His death.
It's not the water, it's faith that enables us to be in Christ. Water baptism is just a sign.
Dunkin a baby just makes him wet...not saved.
Wow that's a twisted interpretation.
Yes, John the Baptist was still a sinner and still lived on earth. So Jesus said that the least person in the KOH was greater than John the Baptist. The least person in heaven was holy and had a new immortal body, but John was a sinner on earth. Yes, John the Baptist was going to heaven. But he was not there yet.
Actually Jesus spoke very highly of John here. Likely because John was the one that got to announce the Messiah had come.
But it didn't save them. You are getting sidetracked. There were people saved back then we were not circumcized or Jews.Wildswanderer Circumcision is more then a sign.. If they were NOT circumcised they were NOT members of the Jewish Nation; Circumcision ADDED the person to the Jewish community!
Oh good grief. Have you no understanding of context?LOVE!
1 Timothy 2:15
But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.
Wildswanderer So much for saved by FAITH ALONE!
No that would be the Catholic church who reject a lot of scripture for their tradition.Wildswanderer you tread on egg shells your salvation is at stake because you REJECT the words of God for the lies of the Protestors; men who rejected Jesus for a man made TRADITION!
Where's it say all Christians are in the throne room?FACT: John was dead he had been decapitated when Jesus said this.. "The least IN the Kingdom is greater then he"!
John was dead Jesus said; of all the people ever born the LEAST in the KINGDOM was greater then John! John did NOT enter the KINGDOM he entered a Garden! IF...
Wildswanderer if The Thief entered a Garden and NOT the KINGDOM then John for sure also entered Paradise because he was greater then the Thief but the least IN THE KINGDOM was still greater BECAUSE...
Those IN the KINGDOM have an inheritance they are the Children of the KING!
Those IN the KINGDOM enter the throne room! The Apostles are an example they are sitting on THRONES in the Throne room!
All ADDED to the Holy Body of Jesus by Baptism also enter the Throne room because Jesus is The KING!
But it didn't save them. You are getting sidetracked. There were people saved back then we were not circumcized or Jews.