Sentences with phrase «water baptism»

Just because a Scripture talks about «baptism,» does not mean that it has water baptism in view.

It is for these reasons that I think that the growing and cutting of hair might be one good modern alternative to water baptism for the new believer.

Water baptism represented a death to the past and a new life for the future.

For this reason, and this reason alone, it is never wrong for a person to receive water baptism.

It generates questions about what happened, just as water baptism generated these questions in biblical times.

So the question for us today is this: Is water baptism still required today?

Cause we see water baptism a lot in that book.

They say water baptism is essential for the believer and act as if baptism in holy spirit is not really essential but perhaps «nice to have,» or valuable in many ways.

They also claim water baptism is not essential for salvation.

If Jesus was truly talking about water baptism in Matthew 28:19 - 20, then why is it that there is not a single example in all of Scripture where someone was water baptized according to the «formula» of Matthew 28:19?

We know this because water baptism does not result in dying with Christ (6:4), and the parallel passage in Colossians 2:11 - 12 compares spiritual circumcision with spiritual baptism.

Water baptism symbolizes what has already happened to us spiritually.

Peter and the apostles never taught water baptism was for the forgiveness of sins.

Each reference to water baptism indicates that the Gospel of the Kingdom of God has arrived to a new people group.

These symbolic rituals could be adopted today in lieu of water baptism which might do a better job of representing our full identification with Jesus Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection, and which, when we undergo them, would cause people who know us and observe what we are doing, to ask us why we would perform such a bizarre and morbid action.

Indeed, as these factors coalesce, it appears most likely that Jesus indeed intended water baptism by immersion to be normative for His disciples of all generations.

Three, the original hearers interpreted Jesus» use literally and practiced water baptism as a result.

Thanks, Jeremy — I disagree with your first proposition, Why Water Baptism Can Be Practiced Today, for precisely the reason you gave in your rebuttal.

If water baptism makes people Christians, then how does one explain the people I know who were baptized * to please their girlfriend?

The baptism in Acts 2:38 is the Jewish water baptism of repentance, and the baptism in Romans 6 (and the following context) is the Spirit baptism which is quite different.

I guess I would go the opposite way, and say that there is no historical evidence in the Scriptures that anyone believed that water baptism helped accomplish justification.

Acts 2:38 Peter said to them, «Repent and be baptized with Holy Spirit baptism; because water baptism is not a New Covenant requirement.

I noticed you said, «But after this initial preaching of the Gospel and water baptism followed by Spirit baptism, the baptism of the Spirit comes immediately upon a person believing in Jesus for eternal life, whether or not they get water baptized» I must loving tell you this isn't what the bible teaches about baptism.

Instead, all baptisms in the New Testament are done in the name of Jesus Christ, because identification with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus is what water baptism truly represents.

The N.T. practice was water baptism immediately upon profession of faith (whether it was needed or not).

Take water baptism for example.

Downplaying water baptism as something that is optional (read: merely a personal decision rather than a command but not a requirement of salvation) is to make our persecuted siblings seem foolish for making such a decision unnecessarily.

Certainly water baptism was practiced in Acts.

Now, Spirit baptism is even more permanent, if I can put it that way, because it actually does something to us whereas water baptism is simply an outward symbol of an inward reality.

As a result, it had been a common practice in the movement's initial years to practice water baptism using either the trinitarian formula found in Matthew or the christological formula noted in Acts.

The most popular way of explaining away Mark 16:16 is to say that it does not say, that he who has not been baptized will be condemned, therefore water baptism is not essential to be saved.

There have been many attempts to explain water baptism away from Mark 16:16, including denying that, and, is a conjunction linking belief and baptism.

Certainly, the baptism of the Spirit is one of the gifts that accompanies justification, but we must not make the mistake of confusing water baptism and Spirit baptism.

What is is purpose of water baptism according to Acts 2:38?

Though water baptism is a great and wonderful symbol, it is not immediately understood by our surrounding culture as it was in New Testament times.

This is from some notes of mine «Paul could say the Israelites were baptized into Moses even though they did not undergo literal water baptism in the name of Moses.

I will begin writing today about «Baptism today» and why I think water baptism is a good practice in some situations, but there might be better alternatives in other situations.

Yesterday I suggested that Matthew 28:19 - 20 is not talking about water baptism at all, but is instead talking about being immersed into and fully identified with the teaching about the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Furthermore, there is no indication of Jesus ever performing water baptism; on the contrary — «When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were)».

Has God misspoken concerning water baptism and salvation or has man misunderstood, rejected, or ignored God's teaching.

Paul elsewhere indicates that the real washing occurs with the water of the Word (Eph 5:26), and even Peter himself seems to disregard water baptism as having any real significance (cf. 1 Pet 3:21).