2007-10-07 05:10:43 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
An outward expression that you are already saved. Nobody can be saved by being water baptised, and it is not required for salvation. Salvation is only by believing that Jesus, who is God, died for your sins on the cross and rose again (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
2007-10-07 05:13:56 · answer #1 · answered by CJ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My belief is that the "one baptism" that is important for us today is Christ's death in our place.
Jesus said, "but I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am till it is accomplished!" This he said talking of his coming death on the cross.
I dont believe that any water baptism we might undergo has any real meaning, whether sprinkled, poared, or immersed. The baptism that John carried out on the Jews had great meaning for them at that time, as it was a baptism of repentance, but how can it apply to gentile people of our era?
2007-10-07 05:29:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not an inconsistency in the Bible, it is inconsistent translation by MEN. The Bible was written originally in Greek and Hebrew - they did not use punctuation back then either. When men through the centuries translated the Bible into other languages, they put in the punctuation as they saw fit - where they thought the punctuation should go. Jesus' words to the thief were punctuated as the translators saw fit, however, with different placement of the punctuation, the words have a different meaning. Example: How it is written in the Bible, based on MEN'S interpretation of where the punctuation should be: "I say to thee, today thou shall be with me in Paradise" Take the same words and change the punctuation: "I say to thee today, thou shall be with me in Paradise" Did Jesus say that the man will be with him THAT DAY in Paradise? Or did Jesus say he was TELLING the thief on that day that the thief would be in Paradise? It is all in the interpretation of where you think the punctuation is and what you believe Jesus said and how he said it, and what he meant. It is MAN that has translated the Bible and screwed up the meanings of words - sometimes in translations there are not the proper words in English to match the words in Greek or Hebrew - even my French friend when translating from French to English cannot find a proper word, so she puts in a close word that is kind of like the word she wants - not exactly an exact translation. So for any so called inconsistencies remember that MAN is the one that made the translations, so they could have easily screwed it up and mistranslated.
2016-05-18 00:48:23 · answer #3 · answered by janeth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the life of a Protestant, baptism is a human gesture that demonstrates the depth of one's faith. In the life of a member of the Christian Church Christ Himself founded, baptism is a sacrament, a work of God in us, through which we are filled with grace and become children of God, members of His family the Church, and heirs of heaven. This has been the understanding of baptism among Christians for 2,000 years.
2007-10-07 05:45:41 · answer #4 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Water baptism is important because Jesus said we should do it, so it's first an act of obedience. It is an outward expression of what has happened inside, the death of the old person and the rising of the new, clean person. It's a chance to declare to the world that you now belong to Jesus. Think of it like a marriage, you make public marriage vows to tell everyone you belong to your spouse, this is the same.
Baptism of the Spirit is something else, it happened to me the second I raised my hand to Jesus, at my conversion experience. The Spirit is the power of God in us, enabling us to choose to do things God's way instead of our own.
2007-10-08 00:12:41 · answer #5 · answered by good tree 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is an external symbol of a very deep inner transforming. Being washed with the water symbolizes the washing away of the old person and taking on the new person, with the robe of Christ. All the old is washed and the new person in Christ arises. Unfortunately, it has become so external that most these days keep so much old that it becomes a conflicting practice.
2007-10-07 05:20:00 · answer #6 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Baptism of the holy spirit keeps the word of God in power to manifest the five fold ministries of the body of christ.
Ephesians 4: 11 - 16
11And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—16from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
Baptism of the Holy Spirit (not a water baptism)
I received the Holy Spirit by my sure faith in Jesus and God, before I came to the church that I am in now. The power of the Holy Spirit is so powerful that its force rippled through me from my feet up to my head and removed the pain and depression that I was experience at the time. I have never had a water baptism, yet. You are saved by faith and obedience to God and not by the perfecting of this fleshly body. We seem to live by the flesh and not of the spirit. This fleshy body will not inherit the kingdom of heaven but by your mind you will seek to live in the spirit.
Water baptism is not necessary. Look at the thief on the cross, were his water baptism. By his faith he believed and Jesus took him.
Read:
Mathews 3: 11 (John baptizes the fleshly body onto repentance of sin but he who is greater will baptize your spirit with the Holy Spirit).
Mathews 3:15 Jesus full fills all righteousness (only he can, we are only righteous through him).
Luke 24: 44 (He will send the Holy Spirit)
Acts 9: 17 – 18 (Saul was baptized with the Holy Spirit)
Acts 13: 9 (Saul, now is called Paul is stated that he filled with the Holy Spirit).
Acts 19: 1 – 5 (Paul asks the disciples if they received the Holy Spirit and they said they received the baptism of John but they should believe on him who comes after John, who is Jesus).
2007-10-07 05:20:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is the outward symbol to the world of the act of being born again. When you go under the water it is a symbol of the death of your old self. Coming up from the water is the new person rising
2007-10-07 05:14:12 · answer #8 · answered by sword8888 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
not all christian baptisms are the same!
2007-10-07 08:40:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋