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In Acts 10, was Cornelius saved or unsaved before he / his household was baptized? Look was Peter says in Acts 11:16-17..."And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He used to say, 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. "Therefore if God gave to them the same...

Yes, we don't baptize unbelievers.

When I was talking with my friend I used several examples of showing why that belief of baptismal regeneration is wrong. 1) I mentioned the story from the gospel of Luke of when the Pharisee and the tax collector were at the Temple praying. The tax collector went away justified before God. This...

Yes, I accidentally hit enter before I finished the title. Im going to play Devils advocate here, how does one access the blood of Jesus and get into Christ apart from baptism? It's not that getting wet saves you but it's the contact point of meeting the blood, taking part of His death, burial...

I use the example of Cornelius in Acts 10 and how they received the Holy Spirit before baptism.

There are many who believe that baptism is the point of salvation, where we come in contact with the blood of Jesus and are forgiven of our sins and when we receive the Holy Spirit. Talking to a church of Christ friend the other day and we discussed baptism. Acts 2:38: Peter replied, "Repent...

"Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God." R.C. Sproul. As stated above, to sin is to do the will of satan over God. It's deeper than just a bad choice and the consequences of The Fall stretched even to nature...

I get kind of tired of hearing people after every earthquake or natural disaster say, "Get ready here comes Jesus!" While I agree that we should look forward to His coming, no one should ever try and predict in the time/hour of His 2nd coming. Ironically many overlook this but the 2nd coming...

I believe you missed my sarcasm in reference to Martin Luther.

@farouk yes I've seen it :-)

One doesn't have to worry about traps if they're preaching the truth.

He made mention that salvation is not by works.

@BreadOfLife LOL if people on here aren't making you mad enough just go to the DMV :D if only the DMV was infallible

Neither is the word Pope

You spend more time defending a false church than the true gospel. To be honest, those of us who have seen the true Gospel would not want to join the catholic church. The just shall live by faith.

But a infallible (incapable of making mistakes or being wrong) human. Which in that case would make him no human at all, but divine More lies