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Not according to the written word of God. John 17:17, 1 John 5:9-13.

 

Not taught in the Bible, but certainly the tradition of a church that has gone astray and embraced unsound doctrine.

Ephesians 2:1-9 tells you the means by which God graciously saves. You were dead and could do nothing to save yourself. God chose to free you from slavery by paying the ransom for your freedom, which you could not pay.
Not all the sacraments in the world could save you apart from Jesus obeying the Father and redeeming all whom the Father has given Him. (John 10 and John 17)

 

NO

 

Again, justification is a 1 time event per Paul

 

Baptism has never saved anyone, eternally. It saved a lot of Jews from 'the wrath to come', 66 - 72 AD.

 

you openly deny Romans 5:1

 

Acts 5:14 And believers were the more added to the lord, multitudes BOTH OF MEN AND WOMEN.

Acts 8:12 But when they believed Phillip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, BOTH MEN AND WOMEN.

Sorry Lagrange, no mention of infants in the above verses.

You said many were saved through the faith of others. Can this be extended to my grandchildren, or double first cousins or is it immediate family only and if so why? Where do you draw the line?

John 14:6 Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father but by me. This verse negates any form of proxy salvation. It does not say no man and his wife or no man and his child. Individual accountability cannot be eliminated.

John Gill gives a very good treatise concerning 1 Cor 7:14. His interpretation from other manuscripts says it deals with espousals and the legitimacy of those offspring. I would encourage you to read it.

 

The word baptizo means "to dip" or "to immerse." It was a common word and did not have to be water. Baptism often is speaking of the Christians immersion into Christ. Paul's verse in Galatians 2:20 gets at the idea when he says he has been crucified with Christ nevertheless he lives. The Spirit immersed us into Christ, never to be removed from that plunge. Our sinful soul was made pure by the immersion into Christ by the Holy Spirit. The water baptism of the local church is a baptism into covenant with God, not a saving baptism as your church so unfortunately teaches.

 

*Romans 6:3-11*
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

*Galatians 2:20*
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

*Galatians 3:25-29*
But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.

Note that the context of the baptism is not water, but is instead, baptism (immersion) into Christ.