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Debate:Why do we still perform Baptisms? (view source)
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--[[User:Wally|Wally]] 19:56, 26 June 2007 (EDT)
--[[User:Wally|Wally]] 19:56, 26 June 2007 (EDT)
:In reading the Bible we see that John the Baptist came baptizing in water. He preached that people should be water baptized for the remission of sins (Mark 1:4). John the Baptist was an Old Testament preacher so his teachings are Old Testament theology. New Testament theology states that the blood of Jesus is for the remission of sins (Matthew 26:28). Titus 3:5 states that “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;” By this we can see that water baptism is an Old Testament picture that prophesied of the washing of regeneration that was to come. The Old Testament believers looked ahead through pictures to the cross of Calvary while New Testament believers look back thru the Spirit. Jesus was watered baptized to fulfill an Old Testament picture, which was one of many. His water baptizing shows that we must be washed of the Holy Spirit for the remission of sins, which comes, by the blood of Jesus.
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