ArchivedIn Defense of Catholic SoteriologyYou beliefs about baptism are just that, your beliefs. Back them up with Scripture or keep them to yourself. If all you have to contest is Luther and Calvin I would probably agree with you, however, not all Protestants subscribe to these individuals views.
But, by stating that Christ's finished work on the cross is insufficient for the redemption of man is to say that His crucifixion was unnecessary. As to King David, he never walked away from his salvation; he commited sins for which he repented. You are equating sinning with loss of salvation in which case every man alive would have to be re-saved on an almost daily basis. Christ's death paid the penalty for all our sins, past, present, and future and if this is not true then we have to crucify Him daily and that is not what Scripture teaches. It teaches He was crucified once for all and we are crucified with Him and all we need to do is confess and repent of our sins. It is lack of repentance that God judges not mankinds sinful nature; a nature we are born with an never lose.
Sanctification is the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit in each believer, and is completed at our physical death. There is not Biblical justification to believe otherwise. You are verging on a heresy called Gnosticism. Rom 4:3-8
3 For what does the Scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness." 4 Now to the one who works, his wage is not reckoned as a favor, but as what is due. 5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is reckoned as righteousness, 6 just as David also speaks of the blessing upon the man to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works:
7 "Blessed are those whose lawless deeds have been forgiven,
And whose sins have been covered.
8 "Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account."
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Gal 3:6
6 Even so Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.
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Phil 3:8-15
8 More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish in order that I may gain Christ, 9 and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, 10 that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; 11 in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. 12 Not that I have already obtained it, or have already become perfect, but I press on in order that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. NAS
Our righteousness before God is imputed, not earned or learned either before or after death.
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