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Baptism, Part 5

February 3, 2009

This is the last post in a series on water baptism. In Part 1 and Part 2 we explored what water baptism is and how the early church performed it. Part 3 introduced the teaching that water baptism can provide salvation – a teaching that we thoroughly debunked in Parts 4a, 4b, and 4c.
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Baptism, Part 4c

February 2, 2009

OK, we are looking at passages that people use to support the belief that water baptism is a means by which we can or must receive salvation. We have already studied several in Part 4a and Part 4b, and we’ll see one more here. This last one is the most technical, so hang on.
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Baptism, Part 4b

January 28, 2009

OK, we’re looking at a couple of passages on baptism and salvation that seem to stump people a lot. In Part 4a, we explored Acts 3:28. Let’s look at the next one.
The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned. Mark 16:16
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Baptism, Part 4a

January 28, 2009

We’re working through a study of water baptism. In Part 1 and Part 2 we saw that water baptism in the New Testament was used as a public expression to identify a person as a believer in Jesus Christ. The early Christians baptized people by immersing them in cold, flowing water (like a river or [...]

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Baptism, Part 3

January 24, 2009

We are looking at the biblical teaching of water baptism. So far we have established:

The word “baptism” means “immersion” or “to dip under” (Baptism, Part 1)
The earliest Christians all baptized people by plunging them fully under water(Baptism, Part 2)
Water baptism is a public symbol that a person has new life through Jesus Christ, and immersion [...]

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