preacherintraining wrote:When you state, "What we are saying is that it is not essential for
Salvation" and we read, "baptism now saves you. . . " (1 Pet. 3:21),
there is a clear contradiction. Guess who I would recommend a person to
stake his eternity on?
I studied with my preacher in the Church and after I knew enough and realized that I was a sinner and needed to be saved I went to the church building to be baptized. This was to make sure that if I died that night I would still be saved because I was baptized. Many people in our church have done that all the time. Some simply come up at the invitation song and are baptized. As far as the heaters, I would gladly be cold for a couple of minutes if it meant someone would be saved.
Then we have a contradiction in the Bible don't we?
Luke 7:50
50 And He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace."
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Eph 2:8-9
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, that no one should boast.
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