David Becker

[Jkdbuck76]

http://www.guidedbiblestudies.com/

What do you think about this? I ran across it a few weeks ago?

Is he good? Bad? A heretic?

What is your opinion? My opinion is that I don't understand his thoughts on baptism. When you search the web for "baptist bible studies" he comes up.

 

[Jkdbuck76]

So.....nobody has an opinion?

OK.

 

[SBCPreacher]

Never heard of him.

 

[Jkdbuck76]

http://www.guidedbiblestudies.com/faq.htm#Faith

http://www.guidedbiblestudies.com/faq.htm#Salvation

During a the baptism of Christ, a person dies as he goes under the water. He is relinquishing his life at that moment with faith that the very act of joining Christ in death will remove all sin from him and make him holy. The person is also making an act of faith in participating in the resurrection of Christ through the grace of the LORD GOD.

When a person comes up out of the waters of death (separation between the Kingdom of God and the World), he is resurrected with the Lord Jesus Christ. He is a new person. His old being is dead and in the grave. He is resurrected into the new spiritual life with Jesus Christ through grace of the LORD GOD. At the moment a person comes up out of the waters of baptism, and is resurrected into the life of the Kingdom of God, he is the most righteous person on the earth. All of his sin has died, and the power of the LORD GOD has raised him to a precious new life, sin free and holy. From that moment on, he will never experience death again.

410. Faithful believers died into sin once, and live unto God through Lord Jesus Christ forever.
All people must die once as a result of original sin. A faithful Christian‘s death is faced in the baptism of Christ. Once baptized, he will never die again. In future studies, we will learn about what physical death feels and looks like to a faithful Christian, and how the faith of a Christian is tested one last time for entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven. Until then, know this...The moment between the physical death of a Christian’s body, and the separation of the soul from that body is non-discernable. In other words, a Christian does not feel the sting of death. The realness a Christian feels in life, is the same realness a Christian feels in death. A Christian does not experience a physical death, because a Christian has already died in baptism. Like Christ, all people can only die once, and like Christ continue to live on unto the LORD GOD for eternity.

These views on baptism are certainly different.

 

[sag38]

Sounds like the Church of Christ's cultic teachings.

 

[Alive in Christ]

I agree. It sounds like he is advocating baptismal regeneration...

"When a person comes up out of the waters of death (separation between the Kingdom of God and the World), he is resurrected with the Lord Jesus Christ. He is a new person. His old being is dead and in the grave. He is resurrected into the new spiritual life with Jesus Christ through grace of the LORD GOD. At the moment a person comes up out of the waters of baptism, and is resurrected into the life of the Kingdom of God, he is the most righteous person on the earth."

We are NOT "resurrected" with Christ and turned into a "new creation" as we come up out of the water, but rather when we place our faith completely in Christ alone for salvation.

Water baptism comes after that as a great "picture" of what has already transpired in the new believers life...though faith in Christ alone.

:godisgood:

 

[Jerome]

Bucker and Becca Becker teach that unbaptized believers go to the grave when they die, while baptized believers go to heaven.

From Bucker Becker's blog:

"Does Salvation guarantee Heaven?"
"Heaven is a temporary dwelling place, until His chosen Time, when a new Heaven and a New Earth will be established"
"unbaptized Believers . . . will go to an earthly grave"
"BAPTIZED, SAVED BELIEVERS will go to Heaven"

 

[Jkdbuck76]

soul sleep?