Cherish the Home: What I Believe

Cherish the Home: What I Believe

I agree with alot of what you said, but I have a different take on salvation. I believe that baptism is essential to salvation. Salvation is often called a work, but it is really an act of obidience. You know that faith is also called a work too. Let's look at Mark 16:16 which says he who believes and is baptized shall be saved; he who believes not shall be condemned. Let's substitue some words so we can draw a parallel here. Let's read it this way; he who eats and digests shall live; he who eats not shall die. Are you really going to tell me that you can eat and not digest and still live? That's what you are saying when you say that faith alone saves you.

The reason baptism was not mentioned in the second part of that sentence was because it was unneccessary to do so. If you are not going to eat then you don't have to add that you are not going to digest. You have to eat and digest to live, and you have to believe and be baptized to be saved.

Acts 2:38 says that baptism is for the remission of sins. If repentence and faith took your sins away then why would they say that baptism was for the removal of sins there? You would be having your sins being removed twice in the same sentence.

Galations 3:27 says those who have been baptised into Christ have put on Christ. How else do you put on Christ...chapter and verse please!

Everyone in the New Testament was baptized shortly after repentance and confession within the same hour or shortly thereafter. The same thing that didn't stop them from baptizing right away should not stop us today. Why do many churches wait days and sometimes weeks before they baptize you? It's not what happened in the Bible. Could it be that baptism was really apart of the salvation process.

You can't take man out of the salvation process. Remember Romans 10 says how shall they hear without a preacher. And, after many Protestant baptisms they even tell you to call a man and tell him about your confessing Christ and letting him into your heart. So, even you are not taking man out of salvation. Yes we are saved by grace through faith, but there are steps leading to scriptural salvation.