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Re: Question?
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Originally Posted by Praxeas
That's really the issue though isn't it? That's what I said before. You are assuming your biblical view is correct and ours is not and is therefore not up for debate.
You see Jesus commanded the Apostles to go out and baptize "in the name". We can wrangle over the meaning of the rest of that if you want but when Peter preached on Pentecost he said literally "Repent and get yourself baptized (Passive) in the name of Jesus"..
He was not to baptize Himself. He was to allow someone to baptize him "In Jesus name". So the biblical command was for the baptizer to do something and the baptizee to allow or submit to it.
I'll post something I wrote about why we say the name in the next post
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That's all fine, but people are telling others they are not saved unless they do it THIS way. The problem with that is I was saved before I did it that way and, having no biblical knowledge I believed this. It didn't seem like a big deal to be rebaptized. What was the harm in doing it, I thought? Only years later, did I understand that it put me in the position of doubting my salvation and putting me in the position of constantly doubting my salvation and asking if there was anything else I missed that God might throw me into hell for. Thus began a fear-based walk.
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Last edited by ILG; 06-24-2014 at 08:54 AM.
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