Re: Forgiveness or Remission?
It is a very inconsistent doctrine that states that one can be forgiven/receive remission of sins prior to water baptism, merely through repentance and/or receiving the Holy Spirit, even to the speaking with other tongues, and yet, have the ability to reject or put off water baptism by personal choice, thereby disobeying a direct command of the Son of God, and His Chosen Emissaries of the Gospel, thereby showing that unless and until such a person gets in the water and is immersed in the name of the Lord Jesus, they still have the sin of rejecting the command of baptism tainting their heart, corrupting their soul, thus proving that the sin of disobedience to the command of Christ and the Apostles to be baptized in water, is and only can be, forgiven/remitted, when the person is immersed/baptized.
It is therefore clear that at least one sin must and only can be forgiven/remitted by baptism: the rejection and putting off of baptism itself!
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