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What do you say when you're baptizing someone?

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unprofitable

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Salty said:
Which brings us to another question. You have an individual who wants to join your church. That tell you that they were immersed. When you ask them what church they were baptized in - they state - "Well, 5 years ago, Uncle Joe baptized me - but he is not a member of any church. We just watch Dr Robert Jefferess on Pathway to Victory. --- Would you insist on that individual be re-baptized. --- How about someone who was baptized in a Church of Christ? What other "immersion's" would you not accept?
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No we would not accept Uncle Joe's baptism because the ordinances were given to the church and Uncle Joe cannot be a church. No to the Church of Christ because they teach baptism washes away sins. We do not accept alien baptism. We DO NOT believe baptism saves but all who are saved will be baptized or submit to that commandment of Christ.
 
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unprofitable

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Ascetic X said:
Do you mean only a local church can baptize a person?

Individuals outside the walls of a church have baptized.

John the Baptist — and Phillip baptizing the Ethiopian eunuch.

Acts 8

36 And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?

37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.

39 And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.
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John the Baptist was a Levite under the old Covenant with authority from God to baptize being the one to prepare the way of the Lord or help in the bringing in of the New Covenant which was given to the Church kingdom.

Philip the evangelist was a member of the church at Jerusalem and one of its deacons.

The word evangelist means "sent one". Who sent him or gave him authority to baptize? The church at Jerusalem.
 
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unprofitable

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Salty said:
I'm sure they also believe only the local church as that authority - but the person doing the actual baptizing must be a a "baptized descendent" of John the Baptist!
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We do not hold to this manner of teaching. I have not heard of this doctrine and do not the context of how it is taught.
 
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unprofitable

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Salty said:
I have a friend who was baptized in a Bible (believing) church and a Landmark Bap would not accept it -so he went across town to a SBC church!s
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Bible believing to me is a vague term because so many Baptist churches say they are inspite ths significant difference in doctrine. It would be interesting to know what that Landmark church believed that would cause them to not accept another Baptist churches baptism.
 
Salty

Salty

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unprofitable said:
Bible believing to me is a vague term because so many Baptist churches say they are inspite ths significant difference in doctrine. It would be interesting to know what that Landmark church believed that would cause them to not accept another Baptist churches baptism.
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Simply because it was not a Baptist church!
 
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unprofitable

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Salty said:
Simply because it was not a Baptist church!
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We are faced with the question do all 30,000 plus denominations that perform the ordinance of baptism do it in a scriptural manner if they observe it at all. The ordinance was given to the church at Jerusalem which witnessed the method of baptism performed by John and as Christ commanded his disciples to do also. Christ justified him when he questioned the Pharisees, "The baptism of John, whence was it, of heaven or of men? Since Christ approved the baptism of John, then it was of heaven." We believe that the manner of administration/execution is a method of separating the tares from the wheat. It is simply unscriptual for a group to say they are a church and slap Jesus's approval on it without following the patttern of the kingdom set at Jerusalem during His ministry.

Would your church accept the baptism of the mormons? Or the sprinkling of the catholics?
 
Ben1445

Ben1445

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unprofitable said:
We are faced with the question do all 30,000 plus denominations that perform the ordinance of baptism do it in a scriptural manner if they observe it at all. The ordinance was given to the church at Jerusalem which witnessed the method of baptism performed by John and as Christ commanded his disciples to do also. Christ justified him when he questioned the Pharisees, "The baptism of John, whence was it, of heaven or of men? Since Christ approved the baptism of John, then it was of heaven." We believe that the manner of administration/execution is a method of separating the tares from the wheat. It is simply unscriptual for a group to say they are a church and slap Jesus's approval on it without following the patttern of the kingdom set at Jerusalem during His ministry.

Would your church accept the baptism of the mormons? Or the sprinkling of the catholics?
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I don’t care who says it, Mormons don’t believe in Jesus as taught in Scripture.
They have been considered a cult for a long time. Not until recently have I heard anyone try to make them out to be Christians.

But these don’t parallel to baptism in a different church. If there is an argument to be made that they are not legitimate churches, then that is a different question.
 
Believeth

Believeth

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I don't see anything wrong with the example given in the OP. That being said, at minimum, the words spoken should be "I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost."

Matthew 28:19
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
 
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