Being Baptize

[tigger398]

What if you didn't change untill after you were baptized

[gigman7]

What if you didn't change untill after you were baptized

Then the baptism wasn't real.

[Wildstar]

I know people say that you don't have to be baptized to get to heaven, but the book of John says diffrent. It says John 3:5  no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the spirit. (NIV Bible Version)

matt 3:11

acts 1:5

1 john 5:6

 

its referring to jesus work not something we do.

i dont feel conscience stricken to have never been water baptized.  

 

HIS water HIS blood

belief in it will get His spirit to testify/born again/prove to you etc.  

Edited July 25, 2014 by Wildstar

[tigger398]

My baptism is no good, cause I didn't start changing untill after.

[gigman7]

My baptism is no good, cause I didn't start changing untill after.

It's not when you start changing. It's when you got saved.

[Floatingaxe]

 

What if you didn't change untill after you were baptized

Then the baptism wasn't real.

 

 

That isn't the truth. You are right when you say we experience a changed heart at salvation---before baptism. But it isn't always obvious in behaviour until after baptism when spiritual growth and fruit is observed.

[gigman7]

 

 

What if you didn't change untill after you were baptized

Then the baptism wasn't real.

 

 

That isn't the truth. You are right when you say we experience a changed hart at salvation---before baptism. But it isn't always obvious in behaviour until after baptism when spiritual growth and fruit is observed.

 

Maybe I misunderstood. I read it as they didn't have salvation until after the baptism. In that case, the baptism wasn't real. But going back and reading it again, you may be right.

[Wildstar]

 

 

 

What if you didn't change untill after you were baptized

Then the baptism wasn't real.

 

 

That isn't the truth. You are right when you say we experience a changed hart at salvation---before baptism. But it isn't always obvious in behaviour until after baptism when spiritual growth and fruit is observed.

 

Maybe I misunderstood. I read it as they didn't have salvation until after the baptism. In that case, the baptism wasn't real. But going back and reading it again, you may be right.

 

Anyone who advocates that they need to be baptized for salvation are adding to gods work. 

[RigMedic]

I know people say that you don't have to be baptized to get to heaven, but the book of John says diffrent. It says John 3:5 no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the spirit. (NIV Bible Version)

This came up in another thread and I think this reply fits here as well

Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith. It is something a christian should do in obedience to Christ. I think if someone is a true born again Bible believing Christian they will desire to be baptized. I do not believe that baptism is necessary for salvation because that would take away from the cross.

Ephesians 2:8-9 NKJV

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

I would just like to add one last thing. If water baptism was a necessity for salvation, that is, it was required to be saved, then Jesus would have been made a liar when he told the thief on the cross next to him that he would be in heaven. Am I missing the mark on this?

[Wildstar]

 

No one is saying not to be baptized. But we are told that it is by grace that your are saved through faith; and that not of yourselves. It is a gift of God , not of works, so that no one can boast. Eph. 2

After we turn away from sin and look to Christ to forgive us, He leads us to start doing things that befit repentance. We tell others, we read the Bible, we are baptized and do other such things that are produced by our faith.

Yes, but Jesus told us to be baptized and if we refuse when we have had the change, I would think it would be a definate example of us not having him as our Lord for we were not following his requests/demands.

 

Or maybe they had a good reason for not getting water baptized.  For example, people turning it into a circumcision.  Being baptized does not define whether or not someone is saved, their faith in the lord jesus is what matters.