what should i believe?

Question

a lot of people said diffrent things read them


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which is right and which is wrong?

no i mean do you have to get baptised to be saved by god based on the answers they gave me in the other question what do you think

my god all you u gave bad answers im just asking you to tell me what you think if you should get baptized to be saved by god based on the link answers they gave me

none of you answered my question stop staying off topic

Answer 1

Research - Go down your own path, Follow your heart and believe in whatever makes you 'feel' like a better person.

Answer 2

OKAY:

I used to be a member of the Salvation Army and we did not practice water baptism. Members were free to be baptised in water if they wished, but we didn't believe it was important as the act of baptism in water in contrary to what Jesus actually taught. Jesus taught that one should be baptised in the Holy Spirit to be born again. This is a spiritual baptism, and therefore can happen anywhere. You could be sitting alone in your bedroom and close your eyes and pray to be born again and recieve the Spirit of God, and then BANG, it hits you. That is a spiritual baptism and the sort of baptism Jesus said was required for eternal life. You have to recieve the spirit - that's what baptism does.

Now, many Christians believe that a water baptism is required as an outward symbol of the spiritual change, however others interpret that to be worship of the water itself, saying that those who believe in a water baptism credit the act of baptism with 'magical powers' and that, as only God can truly perform a baptism on someone, the act of submergance in water was unnecessary.

The Bible, however, does demonstrate how people were Baptised by Jesus in water. This was done as an outward symbol and a public declaration of ones faith. There is nothing wrong with that, as long as the spiritual baptism comes with it. I could have a bath and say some magic words but not be born again, does that make me baptised? No. Baptism is a spiritual thing.

You MUST be baptised, but not necessarily in water. You can be baptised by yourself right now if you want.

That is what the Bible says, that is what many Christians believe. Now it is up to you to make a choice. Do you want to have a water baptism, or a spiritual baptism, or both? The choice is yours.

And Kait (below) misses the point. If you believe in Jesus, you will probably experience a spiritual baptism. Why not?

Answer 3

You should believe nothing.

You should accept what the evidence you have available points to, regardless of the conclusion.

If you have no evidence either way regarding an issue, accept and believe nothing about it until you do have such evidence.

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Alistair: Actually, light is physical. It is transmitted/carried by particles called photons. If you do not believe they are physical, get an old flash unit for a camera (not one of those disposibles, an attachment one with a huge capacitor that whines as it powers up), hang a pan by the handle with a piece of string, and hold the flash abuot an inch away from the pan and press the flash button.

The pan will ring loudly from getting slammed with so many photons at once.

Answer 4

Any deity that would make you believe something, without giving proof, actually having every piece of evidence point against organized religion, and then punish you for not choosing the right religion out of the thousands of past and present practiced religions. Well, that is a pretty good sign that religion doesn't have any authenticity.

Answer 5

No you do not have to be baptised to be saved or have a relationship with God. You should be baptised out of obedience to God, but it is not baptism that saves you. You are saved by faith.
The thief on the cross went to Paradise with Christ and he was not baptized.

We are saved by grace, not by works, so that no one can boast. There is no mention of baptism in the following verses.
We are saved by grace alone. Recall that in Acts 16:31 the jailer asked Paul and Silas how to be saved. They responded, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved." The jailer believed and immediately became saved.
Close to 200 times in the New Testament salvation is said to be by faith alone - with no works in sight. Consider the following:
John 3:15 tells us that "everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."
John 5:24 says, "I tell you the truth, whoever hears my words and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life."
In John 11:25 Jesus says, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies."
John 23:46 says, "I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness."
John 20:31 says, "But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name."
If salvation were not by faith alone, then Jesus' message in the Gospel of John - manifest in the above quotations - would be deceptive, stating that there is one condition for salvation when there are allegedly two - faith and works.

Answer 6

From the four types of evidence—Vedic knowledge, direct experience, traditional wisdom and logical induction—one can understand the temporary, insubstantial situation of the material world, by which one becomes detached from the duality of this world.

There are four kinds of proof: (1) pratyaksa,direct experience; by your mind and senses (2)anumäna; logical induction; (3)aitihyam—traditional wisdom; and (4)Sabda ;by hearing from authorities.
Out of the fourth methods, that of receiving knowledge from higher authorities, is the most perfect.

We are born in ignorance, and our first authorities that begin to tech us are our patents, then we go to school. Similarly we have find some one who really knows, one who has seen the truth.
"This knowledge is the king of education, the most secret of all secrets. It is the purest knowledge, and because it gives direct perception of the self by realization, it is the perfection of religion. It is everlasting, and it is joyfully performed."
When you find something that make you feel what is mentioned abode here, then stick with it.

Answer 7

Believe what you are most comfortable with, what you can live with every day for the rest of your life (until you decide to believe something else). In the end, though, it's about what makes sense to you. Belief usually comes on its own, it's not forced or decided upon... it just happens.

Answer 8

The truth.

"The truth shall make you free".

John 8:32

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Answer 9

material evidence or logical evidence...
it's your choice.
but remember not everything is material... not even light.

Answer 10

Only you can decide.