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  1. bdavidc

    The Baptism That Saves: What Most People Miss in Acts 11:16

    Anyone can say someone doesn’t understand Scripture, but the only real test is whether the verses are used the way God uses them. “Rightly dividing the word of truth” means handling Scripture in context, not rewriting what it plainly says ~2 Timothy 2:15. Every passage I gave says the same...
  2. bdavidc

    Can the Bible contain mistakes?

    The very first question ever asked in Scripture came from the serpent’s mouth in Genesis 3:1, “Yea, hath God said…?” That question still echoes in our day. Every challenge to the authority, truth or perfection of God’s Word traces back to that same satanic seed of doubt. Scripture declares...
  3. bdavidc

    What Does 'Surely Die' Mean?

    The Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) teaching looks biblical on the outside, but their doctrine at its heart is contrary to the Word of God. Scripture tells us salvation is completed in Christ ~John 19: 30, but the SDA teaching of an Investigative Judgment says Christ is still investigating believers...
  4. bdavidc

    What Does 'Surely Die' Mean?

    Your post is not biblical for two reasons. First, its conclusion is built by forcing one Hebrew idiom to take a meaning that the rest of Scripture never gives it. The phrase “moth tamuth” only intensifies the certainty of God’s warning, and the Bible itself tells us what death entered through...
  5. bdavidc

    The Bible says we are accountable to God and His Word, not our own opinion. ‘Each of us will...

    The Bible says we are accountable to God and His Word, not our own opinion. ‘Each of us will give account of himself to God’ ~Romans 14:12. The same Word also commands believers to correct and exhort one another ~Hebrews 3:13; ~Galatians 6:1. Accountability is not self made. God defines it, and...
  6. bdavidc

    The Baptism That Saves: What Most People Miss in Acts 11:16

    You can ignore what I said, but you know I have only quoted Scripture and have not taken any verse out of context. I have twisted nothing. If one can read the passages in order and follow the flow of thought, the Word is speaking plainly. The Bible says the Spirit is received through faith...
  7. bdavidc

    The Baptism That Saves: What Most People Miss in Acts 11:16

    You asked if I am reading something and if I understand what I read. I do understand. I am reading the Scriptures, and I am taking them at face value, exactly as God gave them, lining up Scripture with Scripture to make sure nothing is taken out of context. When the whole Word is laid side by...
  8. bdavidc

    Mamdani (Muslim running for NYC mayor) embraces radical Iman

    Zohran Mamdani wins NYC mayoral election Looks like the following is coming sooner than we think: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoughtsonthesethings/video/7568545217373097271?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc
  9. bdavidc

    The Baptism That Saves: What Most People Miss in Acts 11:16

    In Acts, God was establishing the Church and confirming the gospel’s expansion beyond Jerusalem. The pattern you see in Samaria was unique, it wasn’t showing a two-step salvation, but rather God’s way of publicly uniting Jews and Samaritans under one gospel. They had already believed and been...
  10. bdavidc

    The Baptism That Saves: What Most People Miss in Acts 11:16

    You’re reading into the passage what it doesn’t say. Romans 6 isn’t teaching that baptism causes us to be part of Christ—it’s showing what baptism represents. Paul uses baptism as a picture of what happens spiritually the moment we believe. We are united with Christ in His death and...
  11. bdavidc

    The Baptism That Saves: What Most People Miss in Acts 11:16

    You’re making salvation complicated when God made it simple. The Bible says we’re saved by believing in Jesus, not by doing something with water. Peter wasn’t saying the act of baptism saves you, he clearly said it’s not about washing dirt off your body. It’s about having a clean heart before...
  12. bdavidc

    The Baptism That Saves: What Most People Miss in Acts 11:16

    Yes. Baptism comes after salvation, not before or as part of salvation. The Bible is clear on that. The Ethiopian eunuch first believed, then he was baptized ~Acts 8:36–38. The jailer at Philippi “believed in the Lord Jesus” and was immediately saved. Then, after that, he and his household were...
  13. bdavidc

    The Baptism That Saves: What Most People Miss in Acts 11:16

    “Ready to be baptized with the Spirit” is not biblical. The Bible never teaches the baptism of the Holy Spirit as a separate experience after salvation. When a person is born again, it is the Spirit Himself who baptizes and brings the believer into the body of Christ. Paul wrote, “For by one...
  14. bdavidc

    The Baptism That Saves: What Most People Miss in Acts 11:16

    No, I did not agree. You’re adding what Scripture doesn’t say. The text of ~1 Peter 3:21 doesn’t make baptism the saving agent, it specifically separates the outward act from the inward faith. Peter says, “not the removal of dirt from the body,” but “the answer of a good conscience toward God.”...
  15. bdavidc

    The Baptism That Saves: What Most People Miss in Acts 11:16

    You’re right that the Bible says a lot, but it never contradicts itself. The problem isn’t choosing favorite verses; it’s rightly dividing them ~2 Timothy 2:15. Scripture interprets Scripture, not emotion or assumption. The Ethiopian eunuch believed first before he was baptized. Philip said...
  16. bdavidc

    The Baptism That Saves: What Most People Miss in Acts 11:16

    I did read your post, I do understand exactly what you are saying, but what you wrote is not biblical. Test everything by Sola Scriptura, Scripture interpreting Scripture, not emotion, tradition, or personal reasoning. You said that every apostle baptized only in the name of Jesus and that...
  17. bdavidc

    The Baptism That Saves: What Most People Miss in Acts 11:16

    The Bible says we are saved, forgiven, and receive the Holy Spirit by believing in Jesus Christ, not by water baptism. “For by grace you have been saved through faith… not of works” (Ephesians 2:8–9). Baptism is an act of obedience, a way to publicly demonstrate your faith in Christ, but it does...
  18. bdavidc

    That government shutdown, over illegals getting free healthcare and the like

    Mayor Johnson is incorrect both in his logic and in his analogy. The phrase “illegal alien” is not a racist or mythical slur, it is the statutory term set out in U.S. immigration law for decades, describing a person who has entered or remained in the country unlawfully. Words have meaning, but...
  19. bdavidc

    The Religion That Hates the Truth It Pretends to Preach

    That’s an interesting take, but it really doesn’t have anything to do with my original post. I was talking about the danger of religious hypocrisy and false teachers who mock God’s truth, not about debate styles or formats. Let’s stay on topic, Scripture exposes false religion and calls for...
  20. bdavidc

    When the Pulpit Becomes a Paycheck

    Kenneth Copeland is a false teacher because he perverts Scripture to spread the prosperity gospel, a teaching that instructs people to "speak things into existence" and to manipulate faith as a means to riches. The Bible tells us of teachers who "suppose that godliness is a means to gain" ~1...