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Refuse To Be Baptized?
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Scripture More Accurately
Well-Known Member
My comment was in response to your saying the following about me:
I never said anything that supports your even suggesting that I hold such a view or my "direction" is such and such.
As a clarification, what I should have said was the following:
"I have not said anything that supports your statement that 'my direction is that we are not supposed to disciple people . . .'"
KJB1611reader
Active Member
Hello,
What is meaning of the response not in union with Christ if not baptized?
The Romans verse is about water baptism?
I am not at a Baptist church.
They refuse to let me do communion if I am not water baptized.
I am spiritually baptized into Christ and a Christian.
Shawn
What is meaning of the response not in union with Christ if not baptized?
The Romans verse is about water baptism?
I am not at a Baptist church.
They refuse to let me do communion if I am not water baptized.
I am spiritually baptized into Christ and a Christian.
Shawn
What church do you go to? I know you mentioned availability of Baptist churches being a problem. I’m assuming that the statement in question is from the church. It would be helpful to know what kind of church they are, to know what they mean.
KJB1611reader
Active Member
I am in China.
Its non-denomination.
They do sprinkle since there is no pool.
Though maybe influenced by missionary who started church.
Not Baptist.
There are many rituals that human kind throughout the world adhere to. See attached for clarification
KJB1611reader
Active Member
No YouTube.
Your Uncle Pat and the RCC are not relevant to the discussion.I care…that guy fed us and put a roof over our heads. He was forever helping both his family and his community. However I don’t care about being called a heathen and a publican, whatever a publican is….btw my uncle didn’t give a shite either. Masons serve many communities in both Pennsylvania & NJ. That pipsqueak priest must have lost allot of my uncle’s contributions to his homosexual church which was a path in the right direction. In the end, his mentoring of my mother gave my mom the courage to give permission to me and my brother to both join genuine Christian churches thus ending the Catholic legacy in our family. Thanks Uncle Pat!
"These parts." The region where I live. Shoes and socks are changed regularly and walking is not the primary mode of transportation. No one here needs their feet washed. And it's not an ordinance.
I said you haven't formally entered into union with Christ and His church.
Yes.
As well they should.
That may be true, but in the observation of the ordinances, form and decorum counts.
KJB1611reader
Active Member
Explain formally entered.
KJB1611reader
Active Member
That's no Baptist church, the churches back home let people do communion without water baptism.
You haven't submitted to the initiatory rite. You haven't accepted the sign of your union. Therefore you haven't joined the church. No one is saying you aren't saved, but God will have order in His assemblies. The ordinances aren't a free-for-all, and we aren't free to be disorderly or indiscriminate in our observances of them.
No one can see the heart but God, yet one's testimony can't be accepted if one is refusing to submit to baptistm. That smacks of pride, and God resisteth the proud. It's like the couple who just says they're married, but refuse to solemnize their union. The ceremony doesn't make them one flesh. God does. But we don't get to treat them like a couple until they formally enter into union through whatever ceremony is customary to a particular people.
It's eminently Baptist. I know all about open communion. Where it's practiced there is usually a warning that the ordinance is for those who are members in good standing of a church with like faith and practice, so it's on their conscience if they partake unworthily.
KJB1611reader
Active Member
Yes, but here no. Can't do it.
Why are you in China?
KJB1611reader
Active Member
I am studying medicine. Better here then some woke liberal school in the west.
Yes, wholesale Communism is to be preferred to it's mere influence here.
I'm sure the state-approved church you're attending is safer for you, too. You don't sound like a good candidate for baptism to me. But that's just me. Carry on.
KJB1611reader
Active Member
I couldn't get into a university in Canada.Yes, wholesale Communism is to be preferred to it's mere influence here.
I'm sure the state-approved church you're attending is safer for you, too. You don't sound like a good candidate for baptism to me. But that's just me. Carry on.
Second, I am trying to act safe here, they can spy on my web searchers...
Again, I am a Bptist. I am just trying to find a church.
Where else do I go?
You should have thought of that before hopping the first boat to Communist China.