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Posted on 8/21/15 at 4:15 pm to Peter Buck
Posted on 8/21/15 at 4:15 pm to Peter Buck
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The 13% believe that the act of being a Christian must precede baptism. The other 87% think it starts when Baptised at birth, thus, 87% of Christians are not saved
well, I guess I'm in the 13. Baptism isn't even a requirement. I always liked the way our pastor described baptism. It's like a wedding ring; just wearing it doesn't make you married, it's just an outward symbol that you are. You aren't required to wear a wedding ring, but if you're married, why wouldn't you want to?
When you're born, you can't make major decisions like being saved. Someone baptising you or sprinking water on your head as an infant isn't going to save you. Getting saved is a conscious, intentional decision a person makes.
Going back to what I said ealier, the Bible is emphatically clear that the only way to heaven is to be saved, by accepting Jesus as your savior. Being baptised as a baby before you even have a concept of what any of that means is essentially worthless, IMO.
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Posted on 8/21/15 at 4:25 pm to WG_Dawg
Again, that is your opinion and I have no issue with it. Just remember that the NT was assembled, translated, and culled by the older Chrsitian Religions that make up the 87%.
I guess I find it odd that they didn't notice that part until the Evangelical movement splintered from the Protestant movement in the 1800s and discovered it as their own.
I guess I find it odd that they didn't notice that part until the Evangelical movement splintered from the Protestant movement in the 1800s and discovered it as their own.
Posted on 8/21/15 at 8:46 pm to WG_Dawg
I'm with WG and Dawglife here too. I'm a Southern Baptist that believes the only way to heaven is through Jesus Christ and that baptism is an outward showing of you step of faith. Being sprinkled and baptised as a child doesn't mean you are saved that would go against what the NT emphatically says. I could get into a long schpeil about all the reason Baptists broke away but I'll leave it short and simple protestants other than Catholics, don't believe sprinkling saves you it just means the church will have its hand on you and hope you choose Christ one day. It's a non essential to all those others they will say in their doctrine that the only way to heaven is thru Christ. Examples of these would be Lutherans, Presbyterians, methodists, and other forms of Baptist. Catholicism is a whole other topic in and of itself.
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