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Galatians 2:16Am I correct in assuming you refer to Romans 5:1, or is it elsewhere? With all due respect, it is far more helpful to accurately quote the Scripture we refer to, when we are claiming to base our argument upon it. Saves a lot of time and misunderstanding.
The water baptism would indeed be a external wetness and sign to the Holy Spirit already indwelling us by virtue of being born again!Water baptism is to be an outward witness to the new birth.
If you are someone opposed to the doctrine of baptismal regeneration, please give your reasons for being opposed, and preferably back up your argument from the text of Scripture.
Ask the thief on the Cross when he got dunked!It's garbage, there are plenty of unbaptized people that I'm sure God would save. Maybe it's required when presented with baptism in the name of God. But there are plenty that God talks about that are never baptized, because the idea was never presented. If you feel the dead need to be baptized then you would be Mormon and have a temple where you are a proxy for the baptism of the dead people. Matthew 24:14
Hello David, you are correct. I am thankful for many of the saints. Reformers, Puritans, who have gone before us. I draw several truths that they recovered from the errors of Rome.That's not even the stuff the Reformers believed.
Ask the thief on the Cross when he got dunked!
The sacrament is certainly a seal and God's promise is attached to it. But the baptized person must use their baptism by believing in order for the promise to do them any good. A baptized person who does not believe is not regenerated by baptism.
If you are someone opposed to the doctrine of baptismal regeneration, please give your reasons for being opposed, and preferably back up your argument from the text of Scripture.
It depends on whether you're talking about someone being baptized in water by their own apparent choice, as a ritual or tradition of initiation into an organized religion, or someone being baptized with the Holy Spirit, outside of those contexts and by the will of God. The first would be merely a type of dog and pony show which will not yield any regeneration, but will allow one entrance into a social club glossed over with religious trappings, while in the second case the old natural person will die and the spiritual man will be born; thus it is called the second birth.If you are someone opposed to the doctrine of baptismal regeneration, please give your reasons for being opposed, and preferably back up your argument from the text of Scripture.
Ask the thief on the Cross when he got dunked!
It depends on whether you're talking about someone being baptized in water by their own apparent choice, as a ritual or tradition of initiation into an organized religion, or someone being baptized with the Holy Spirit, outside of those contexts and by the will of God. The first would be merely a type of dog and pony show which will not yield any regeneration, but will allow one entrance into a social club glossed over with religious trappings, while in the second case the old natural person will die and the spiritual man will be born; thus it is called the second birth.
The bold sure sounds like works-righteousness to me.
The additional problem seems to be that you are forgetting that faith doesn't come to us spontaneously out from the aether, God gives and works faith in us through means. Anywhere we find God's word we shall find the gift of faith.
As a member of the Reformed tradition surely you would agree that the preaching of the Gospel is efficacious to create faith, yes? On account of the fact that Romans 10:17 says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. So wherever God's word is, there is faith.
If, therefore, God's word is attached to the water in Baptism, then to deny the reality of faith to the baptized is to deny the efficacy of God's word in creating faith.
So if God's word and promise is found in baptism, then we must confess that the baptized have faith.
Or else God's word and promise is not found in baptism, and baptism is mere empty ritual.
-CryptoLutheran
If you are someone opposed to the doctrine of baptismal regeneration, please give your reasons for being opposed, and preferably back up your argument from the text of Scripture.
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