"Baptized INTO Christ"..
This is a spiritual birth. This is to become "IN CHRIST"..... as our literal existence. This is why we are "seated in heavenly places IN Christ". This is why "as Christ IS< so are the BORN AGAIN, .. IN this world"...... This is to be "ONE" with God and Christ.
Where the confusion comes in is with the word "baptism".
As the secular understanding is always to not recognize the Spiritual. So, the carnal mind, or the "religious' understanding is that this mean "water".
It in fact does not. As its the Holy Spirit that BIRTHS or "makes alive"
Consider what is written in the holy scriptures:
1Pe 3:20, Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
1Pe 3:21, The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
What most Christians think, because thy have been very badly taught by terrible ministers, is that God starts their salvation and then they take it from there, and keep themselves "abiding" as justbyfaith falsely teaches, = IF they try hard and hold unto their faith, they can hopefully end up in heaven if they remember to keep repenting and confessing.
I do not teach that at all, let alone falsely teach it.
I teach that abiding is by faith; which is not of self-effort.
Of course, we do know that the anointing which abides in us teaches us to abide in Christ (1 John 2:27-28) and that if we truly abide (by staying connected to the vine), we will sin not (1 John 3:6).
However we do not abide by not sinning; we abide by faith. And not sinning is the result.
It is also true that a person can abide for ever more (1 John 2:17).
And if I am teaching falsely, how is it that I always back up my statements with holy scripture and
@Behold never does? If one of us is teaching falsely, the one who is false would have an adversity to holy scripture being quoted because holy scripture would contradict the teaching of one who is teaching falsely. Just as Jesus confronted the devil with holy scripture and after three shots, the devil fled from the sharpness of the sword of the Spirit.
Also, there are two scriptures that I believe we should keep in mind when contemplating this issue:
1Pe 1:5, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1Jo 5:18, We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
Understand....Salvation is not God + our behavior after we are saved.
No we are not saved through our behaviour. However our behaviour will be affected by genuine salvation.
No – it’s a misinterpretation of Scripture.
If we can save each other – the Christ is obsolete.
And you are misinterpreting
my words. Of course we are saved through Christ's shed blood (and since Mary did not shed her blood for us, she also is not a co-redeemer); however ministers do "save" other people by preaching the gospel to them; so that they are saved through the preaching of the gospel message. If the gospel had not been preached, they would not have been saved. And therefore, the minister's preaching becomes integral to the salvation of the hearer.