Is there a difference between water baptism and baptism of the Holy Spirit?

Answer 1

Yes there is: John the Baptist baptized repentant Jews in the Jordan river. John was the baptizer; the repentant Jews were the baptized, and the Jordan water was the element. Now we have the Holy Spirit baptizing believers into one body. The Holy Spirit is the baptizer, the believer is the baptized, and the element is not water, but the Body. Finally the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. Jesus is the baptizer; his servant is the baptized; the element is the Holy Spirit. All three different elements that a person is baptized into. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is also when the Spirit comes upon you, or you are filled with the Spirit. At the upper room the disciples experienced the baptism of the Holy Spirit. It is an empowering for service and gives a greater awareness of God. You have to forgive Pentecostals that believe that the evidence of that baptism is speaking in tongues. I can see where in scripture they make that assumption so I give them slack. Truth is that it is totally up to God what happens when you are baptized by Jesus in the Holy Spirit. The main thing is that Jesus is more real. Such a person experiences the supernatural from time to time as God wills. One thing for sure, it does not sneak up on you so that it occurs while you are unaware. No, it is quite an event between you and the Lord. You will never forget it. Someone asked me how to get the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. I told him there is the Pentecostal way: You have to wait and wait and wait on the Lord. There is the Charismatic way: Just babble and presto, speaking in tongues. I told him that there is the Lords' way. He empowers his servants for his service. So if we have no intention to carry our crosses and follow the Lord, why would he empower us.

Answer 2

I grew up in a Pentecostal church and changed into taught that there's a huge difference between both. The baptism by using water is an outward signal of your attractiveness of Christ and His saving grace. Water baptism is the seen "lack of life" of you old self and the "start" of your new existence in Christ. The baptism of the Spirit has to do with a prayer language and the success of the present of the spirit is given. i changed into informed by using a pa tor that not all of us get carry of the presents of tongues like in a wide wild way. That there are situations that the baptism is amazingly deepest between us and God and that is is renewed oftentimes. the single component i could nicely be particular of identity that in case you seek for God and pray he will furnish you with all you want no be counted what all of us else says it quite is.

Answer 3

Baptism of the Holy Spirit

The baptism of the Holy Spirit may be defined as that work whereby the Spirit of God places the believer into union with Christ and into union with other believers in the Body of Christ at the moment of salvation. 1 Corinthians 12:12-13 and Romans 6:1-4 are the central passages in the Bible where we find this doctrine. 1 Corinthians 12:13 states, "For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit." Romans 6:1-4 states, "What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life."

Water Baptism
In Christian baptism, there should be two requirements before a person is baptized: (1) the person being baptized must have trusted in Jesus Christ as Savior, and (2) the person must understand what baptism signifies. If a person knows the Lord Jesus as Savior, understands that Christian baptism is a step of obedience in publicly proclaiming his faith in Christ, and desires to be baptized – then there is no reason to prevent the believer from being baptized. According to the Bible, Christian baptism is simply a step of obedience, a public proclamation of one’s faith in Christ alone for salvation. Christian baptism is important because it is a step of obedience – publicly declaring faith in Christ and commitment to Him, and identification with Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection.

Recommended Resource: Believer's Baptism: Sign of the New Covenant in Christ by Schriener and Wright.

Answer 4

No, Jesus said we are to baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and THE HOLY Spirit.

Also, Peter says that you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit after you are water baptized.

Though in acts there is a difference, it says in Ephesians it says that there is only one baptism.

When you are baptized in water you receive the Holy Spirit.

Answer 5

from the Catechism Of The Catholic Church:

CCC 1263 - By Baptism all sins are forgiven, original sin and all personal sins, as well as all punishment for sin.66 In those who have been reborn nothing remains that would impede their entry into the Kingdom of God, neither Adam's sin, nor personal sin, nor the consequences of sin, the gravest of which is separation from God.
CCC 1265 - Baptism not only purifies from all sins, but also makes the neophyte "a new creature," an adopted son of God, who has become a "partaker of the divine nature," member of Christ and co-heir with him, and a temple of the Holy Spirit.
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Being born again refers to baptism. One key Scripture reference to being "born again" or "regenerated" is John 3:5, where Jesus says, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God."

This verse is so important that those who say baptism is just a symbol must deny that Jesus here refers to baptism. "Born again" Christians claim the "water" is the preached word of God.

But the early Christians uniformly identified this verse with baptism. Water baptism is the way, they said, that we are born again and receive new life—a fact that is supported elsewhere in Scripture (Rom. 6:3–4; Col. 2:12–13; Titus 3:5).

Answer 6

Yes. Water.

Answer 7

Kait's answer is pretty good as far as it goes.

However the Bible also talks about being "Baptized in the Holy Spirit", which occured the first time in Acts 2:4.

As it says once in each gospel, Jesus is the One Who Baptizes in the Holy Spirit.

It also appear in Acts chapter one, prophetically.

Something must be pretty important to appear as prophesy in all four gospels, then be propheised again in Acts chapter one before being fulfilled in Acts chapter 2:

Matthew 3:11 (NIV)

11"I baptize you with[a] water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

Mark 1:7-8

7And this was his message: "After me will come one more powerful than I, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. 8I baptize you with[a] water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."

Luke 3:16John answered them all, "I baptize you with[a] water. But one more powerful than I will come, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

John 1:29-34

29The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 30This is the one I meant when I said, 'A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.' 31I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel."
32Then John gave this testimony: "I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him. 33I would not have known him, except that the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is he who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.' 34I have seen and I testify that this is the Son of God."

Acts 1:4-8

4On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5For John baptized with[a] water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit."

6So when they met together, they asked him, "Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?"

7He said to them: "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

You see Jesus had already given the Holy Spirit to the Disciples in the way we receive the Holy Spirit at salvation on the evening of the first resurrection day.

See John 20:22

And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

So you see there is a difference between water baptism and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, which is another way of saying "Salvation".

And the Baptism in the Holy Spiirt, as we have seen is yet something else.

The purpose of that is not to save us but rather to empower us for His service.

Pastor Art

Answer 8

i don't think there's any different betwen