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Sadly, that's not the case for you. :( 2 Timothy 4:3 - For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

I can see that you are thoroughly indoctrinated and I don't seem to be getting through to you at all. I just hope that at least a seed has been planted that one day will be watered and open your heart and eyes to the truth.

Nothing there about saved through the waters of baptism. See post #64. That is false. Faith precedes water baptism. I placed my faith in Jesus Christ for salvation hours before I received water baptism. You seem to be confusing the effects of Spirit baptism with water baptism. The Holy Spirit...

Again, plain ordinary H20 has no power to save. Luke 7:29 - When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they justified God/acknowledged God's justice, (signified by) having been baptized with the baptism of John. 30 But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected God's purpose for...

Nonsense. I have never dissuaded man from seeking believers baptism after conversion. I only dissuade people from trusting in water baptism for salvation instead of trusting in Jesus Christ alone. As for me, I received Christ through faith several years ago on a Saturday night and was water...

Water baptism "pictures" the washing away of sins, but plain ordinary H20 has no power to literally wash away our sins. Also, the blood is not literally in the water. In Colossians 1:14, "through His blood" is a reference, not limited to the fluid as if the blood has saving properties in it's...

This is what happens when people don't properly harmonize scripture with scripture. Here is an excellent article on Acts 22:16 - WHAT IS TRUTH: Acts 22:16--Baptism Essential for Salvation? Not at all. Noah was saved by the ARK "through (via) water." Water was not the means of their salvation...

Regardless of the church being in transition in the book of Acts, these Gentiles believed, received the gift of the Holy Spirit, spoke in tongues and were saved BEFORE water baptism. (Acts 10:43-47) The name absolutely represents authority. Acts 4:7 - "And when they had placed them in the...

Just as I thought. Jesus is God in the flesh. (John 1:1,14) Colossians 2:9 (AMP) - For in Him all the fullness of Deity (the Godhead) dwells in bodily form [completely expressing the divine essence of God]. Notice that these Gentiles believed, received the gift of the Holy Spirit and spoke in...

Instead of isolating a pet verse and building your biased doctrine on it, try properly harmonizing it with Acts 3:19; 10:43-47; 11:17,18; 15:8,9; 16:31; 26:18.

Complete nonsense. I did not skip Acts and I quoted multiple verses from Acts in my post, then properly harmonized Scripture with Scripture before reaching my conclusion on doctrine.

I didn't skip Acts 2:38, but explained it to you in post #32. You need to learn how to properly harmonize scripture with scripture. The devils believe "mental assent" that "there is one God" (James 2:19) but the devils do not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and are not saved. (Acts 16:31) Their...

Salvation through belief/faith in Jesus Christ is the narrow way. (John 3:15,16,18; Acts 10:43; 13:39; 16:31; Romans 3:24-28; 4:5-6; 5:1; Ephesians 2:8,9; Philippians 3:9 etc..). In Acts 2:38, "for the remission of sins" does not refer back to both clauses, "you all repent" and "each one of you...

Are you are Oneness Pentecostal? That would explain a lot. In Acts 2:38, "for the remission of sins" does not refer back to both clauses, "you all repent" and "each one of you be baptized," but refers only to the first. Peter is saying "repent unto the remission of your sins," the same as in...

What I did was properly harmonize scripture with scripture before reaching my conclusion on doctrine. If he who believes will be saved (John 3:15,16,18; 5:24; 6:29,40,47; 11:25,26) then he who believes and is baptized (Mark 16:16) will be saved as well, although it's the lack of belief that...

Mark 16:16 - He who believes and is baptized will be saved (general cases without making a qualification for the unusual case of someone who believes but is not baptized) but he who does not believe will be condemned. The omission of baptized with "does not believe" shows that Jesus does not...

You sound like you have more faith in water baptism to save you than you do in Jesus to save you.

The demons believe "mental assent" that "there is one God" (James 2:19) but they do not believe in/have faith in/trust in/reliance in Jesus Christ for salvation. In other words, they do not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 16:31) and are not saved. That’s why their faith cannot save them...

Say what? o_O The shallow ground hearer represents a person not properly prepared in heart so the seed planted ends up with a lack of "root" (lack of being firmly rooted and established). The same Greek word for "believe" (pisteuo) is also used in James 2:19, in which we read that the demons...

Even though this shallow ground hearer in Luke 8:13 is said to have "believed," yet he is never said to have been "saved." How do we know that the shallow ground hearer was never actually "saved"? First, his heart condition is contrasted with that of the "good ground" hearer in the 4th soil...