Covenant theology is just as "scriptural" as Dispy is!
Any church whose origin was in Medieval or modern times is not the church that Christ set up
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Alan Gross Well-Known MemberOne Baptism In Water. DISOBEDIENCE TO DIVINE COMMANDS IS NOT A WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
"There is . . one Baptism." (Ephesians 4:4, 5)..."Do you not know,
that so many of us
as were Baptized into
(with reference to)
Jesus Christ
were Baptized into(with reference to)
His Death?"(Romans 6:3.)...
"Our fathers . . were all baptized into
(with reference to)
Moses in the cloudand in the sea."(I Corinthians 10:1, 2.)
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Use of Scriptural terms,
such as “Baptism”,
in an Un-Scriptural sense
is a favorite trick of modernists.
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This Satan Inspired Delusion
has also been adopted
by some so-called
inter-denominationalists
who pride themselves
on their supposed orthodoxy
or fundamentalism.…The carnal reasoning of men
effected by the curse of the fall
of Adam are
susceptible to Satanic Delusions.…Satanic Delusion Inspired Nostalgia
for the Innocence of Childhood,
to a time prior to the realization
of any hard facts of reality
is a ripe environment
for Godless Fantasieswhere men “think”
APART FROM GOD.
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So it has become fashionable
in certain circles to speak of a"spiritual baptism"
of which the Bible tells us
exactly nothing.…Satan has never introduced
among God's people
a heresy so ridiculous
but that he has been able to find men
willing to prostitutesome degree of scholarship in its defense.…
So it has beenwith the practice of “baby baptism”,
“pouring”, and “sprinkling”
as substitutes for Believer's Baptism.
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There have been a few scholars
of limited ability or honesty, or both,
who have tried to justify these
Un-Scriptural practices
by perverted “interpretations” of Scripture.
…Selling the LIES of “baby baptism”,
“pouring”, and “sprinkling”
as substitutes for Believer's Baptism
has been A Lost Battle.
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Among competent scholars
the Scriptural meaning of "Baptize"
and "Baptism"
is no longer a matter of debate.
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Everyone knows that
the ordinary literal meaning of Baptize
in the New Testament is to dip,
plunge, or immerse in water
and
whatever figurative meaning
the word may occasionally have
must be derived from
and based upon this literal sense.
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Martin Luther, John Calvin,
and John Wesley,
whatever their Doctrinal errors,
were at least,
unlike some of their followers,
scholarly enough to admit
that Scriptural Baptism was Immersion,
and that “sprinkling”,as an Un-Scriptural substitute in its place
was an innovation
by the enemies of God, in order to “bare false witness”,rather than to be obedience.
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Their ARE Bible usages
of Figurative Language,
which employ the Picture
depicted by Scriptural Baptisms.
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First, with regard to the Bible usages
of Figurative Language,
which employ
the Picture depicted by a specific Truth,
such as Baptism,
to symbolically express another Reality,
there is an elementary principle
of honest translation and interpretation
that states that the literal,
or ordinary, meaning of a word
is always to be preferred
if it makes good sense in the context
and is obviously denoting the item stated.…Secondly, as an elementary principle
of honest translation and interpretation
is that figurative or unusual meanings
of a word, or group of words,
are to be adopted only
when demanded by context and is obvious
that there is a connotation of the wording
that is to be understood, as implied.…Undoubtedly in Matt. 20:22, Mk. 10:38,
and Lu. 12:50Jesus was Speakingof a Figurative Baptism
which is demanded by context
and is obvious that there is
a connotation of the wording
that is to be understood,and in this case impliesJesus' Immersion
in the Sufferings of the Cross.
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Jesus' Usage of Figurative Language,
Employed the Scriptural Picture
depicted by the specific Truth,
that Baptism means “to dip”,
“plunge”, or “immerse”,
to symbolically express another Reality,
which was Jesus' Immersion
in the Sufferings of the Cross.
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So the baptism in fire
mentioned in Matt. 3:11 and Lu. 3:16
is evidently not a dipping in water,
but Figurative Language,
Employing the Scriptural Picture
again depicted by the specific Truth,
that Baptism means “to dip”,
“plunge”, or “immerse”,
to symbolically express another Reality,
of
Jesus Burning the dross,
briers, wood, hay and stubble,
which depicts lost Souls,WITH FIRE....
JESUS is in the next verse,
“Who's Fan is In His Hand
and
He Will Thoroughly Purge His Floor
and
Gather His Wheat into The Garner;
but
He Will Burn Up the chaff
with Unquenchable Fire."
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Jesus Baptizing with Fire
is a reference
to the lost in the Lake of Fire
(Rev. 20:15),
in which case the Baptism
is quite literal,
except that it is
Jesus Baptizing with Fire,
instead of water....“He Will Burn Up the chaff
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It's the Word of God and the object of one's faith that makes one's baptism real. Anyone know of any group anywhere who came up with baptism as a rite of initiation all on their own? So any Christian performing baptism is doing so as a direct result of the preaching of the gospel regardless of the channel the gospel was delivered.
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