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I will leave it to you to research the issue. But Zwingli's view seems clear enough for me. He rejected the RCC's view of infant baptism and the more general view of baptismal regeneration as the RCC proclaimed it. Yes, that is Cross's opinion which he references in his text. However, in...

I have not said anything different. But are you suggesting that God cannot save anyone who has not been baptized?

Recovering the Evangelical Sacrament: Baptisma Semper Reformandum (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2013; 403p., pb.), written by Anthony R. Cross. Baptism: Zwingli or The Bible? Jack Cottrell Both are available from Amazon.

I think I just did. Baptism is the time in the life of the repentant believer that God saves him. That is God's promise to the repentant believer. I would comment here relative to 1 Peter 3:21, that the water of baptism is the type to the anti-type of the water of Noah's flood. Both are the...

That is not what the Bible says. Yes, perhaps. But not all that significant in relation to being saved. Only by the fact that in having been baptized, the repentant believer received forgiveness of sins and was given the gift of the Holy Spirit. That gift, among other things constitutes the...

Actually, Huldrlych Zwingli in the early 16th century introduced the false idea that salvation was disconnected from water baptism.

Almost universally, the male of the human species is polygamous by nature. And that, whether you like it or not, is how God created it. Thankfully, God does not hold us accountable for being polygamous by nature; rather He holds of accountable only if we commit polygamy.

I agree, in a sense, that baptism as zero to do with the removal of sin. Such can only be accomplished by God, Himself. However, it seems clear enough from passages such as Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38; 22:16, Col 2:11-13, etc. that baptism is the occasion, the time in the life of the repentant...

Colossians 2 clearly says that baptism is for the forgiveness [remission] of sins. Col 2:12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. Col 2:13 And you, who were dead in your...

Did he conceive himself? No, it is not defiled. The nature of man does not cause him to commit acts of sin. The nature of man as God created him allows him to sin. But it is mans choice to sin. that is snot true. You have it exactly backward. Men are lost because they have sinned. The...

No, it is not Spirit birth; it is spirit birth. It is not the Spirit that is born and reborn, it is our spirit that is first born at our physical birth, or at our conception and then reborn when we believe in God, i.e., have faith in God. Col 2:12 having been buried with him in baptism, in...

That is not the typical meaning of the phrase, "Once Saved Always Saved". It is usually in the sense of Romans 8:38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation...

Theologically, in relation to salvation, the term “grace” has three basic connotations. It can refer to the gift of salvation, that which is given; it can refer to the system of salvation, the manner in which the gift is received; or it can refer to that attribute in God’s nature that makes it...

Nonsense. We are saved by grace through faith and we stay saved by grace through faith. What do you mean by "accepted your FAITH"? If you no longer believe in God, by definition you have no faith, there is nothing to "accept". Only those who believe in God will be with Him in heaven.

That describes the condition of the parents. Nature is not a sin. Clearly, that is figurative, not literal If that is the case, then it is God's fault, not the fault of the individual. God is the only one who could impute uncommitted sin to the one being conceived. You should read Ezekiel...

Then why doesn't He do it?

Luk 18:15 Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them. And when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. Luk 18:16 But Jesus called them to him, saying, "Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Luk 18:17 Truly, I...

1 Corinthians 15:22 is not speaking about being born again. Rather the subject there is the resurrection at the end of the age when Christ returns. In Adam and in Christ are both universal references. They apply to every human being, past, present and future. Both the good and the bad will...

So your view here is that Jesus was unable to communicate effectively with Nicodemus. What absolute nonsense. I suspect that Nicodemus, after speaking with Jesus, had a lot better handle on what Jesus told him than you have even now. The idea that Jesus could not effectively communicate with...

None of this is Biblical, it comes from your own understanding. No matter how much you want it, God is not speaking to you in any sense other than through the written word. Your concept of the "living Word" is just wrong.