Hill Top wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:26 pm

Why give any credence at all to an unbiblical POV ?

How does one know whether or not something is unbiblical without testing it in the light of the Scriptures?

Baseball was as close a simile as I could think of. Cornelius, and his bunch, received the gifts of the Holy Ghost and tongues before their baptisms. So the order isn't imperative to salvation. What if neither one is imperitive to salvation? What if both are simply evidences of salvation or testimo...

Only a true repentance from sin will "seal the deal" of the initial baptism. Then, God will forgive. Like in baseball, you can't score till you touch all the bases. Repentance is one of the "bases" to be touched for forgiveness of sins. Interesting. Yet, in baseball, the bases have to be touched in...

I don't think that baptism can be invalidated by later sins. The sin would certainly show a lack of faith in what is accomplished at baptism besides the remission of past sins. That being, the death of the "flesh", (Rom 6:6), our death with Jesus, (Rom 6:3-4), and the resurrection with Christ of a ...

Just read this tonight and thought it might be of some interest. Not a Bible verse of course. “We seem, therefore, to be driven upon the supposition that excessive love bent him to her entreaties, and made him determine to share her fate. And herein we see his unfitness to receive such a gift from ...

Can you tell me what it was you misunderstood previously ? I thought that you believed that if someone sinned after their water baptism, their baptism was invalid because their sin demonstrated that their repentance from sin was not real. The idea that someone could be baptized in your church and l...

There shouldn't be a delay, but that is what we would have seen if the adulterer in Corinth had repented. Or any of those Paul had noted were now gone from the church. I really can't think of anyone in the bible coming back after having committed a sin, in the NT, so I really don't have any example...

Hill Top wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:40 pm

The sinner had already done his baptism, but hadn't done the repentance from sin.

Interesting.
I didn't realize that you believed that there could be a time delay between being water baptized and discontinuing the practice of any and all sins.

Very interesting.

Just to be certain I'm understanding you... If this had been your church and it was discovered that a baptized member of the church was found to be fornicating with his father's wife and you kicked him out, he can be restored to full membership in your church without being baptized, again? Exactly....

Hill Top,
Do you know of any books that you would recommend that expound on the teachings of your church in an accurate manner?