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    Infant baptism is a secondary issue.
     
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    True, but it all depends on how they are defining th Gospel message itself!
     
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    Yeshua all that matters if they hold to the essentials of the faith.
     
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    Wiht how they understand the Gospel itself as main essential!
     
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    What Truth from God's word do you consider an non-essential?
     
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    Lots of things.

    Alcoholic beverages
    Modes of baptism
    Eschatology
    Ecclesiology
    Bible translations
    Etc...
     
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    Think the proper wording would be what is Primary and what is secondary. Essentials are doctrines MUST agree with to be Christian, while others are debatable ones!
     
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    “What are the essentials of Christianity? Five doctrines are especially important:
    1. The Bible is the inspired Word of God and is therefore inerrant and authoritative.
    2. The one true God is infinite, eternal, and revealed in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
    3. Jesus is eternal God as the second person of the Trinity. In the incarnation, He took on a human nature, being born of a virgin. He died for humankind’s sins and three days later physically rose from the dead.
    4. People are created in God’s image and are morally accountable to Him. They are des”

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    “destined to live forever with God in heaven or suffer eternally in hell, depending on whether they have been saved.
    5. All human beings are born into the world in sin and estranged from God. They can do nothing to merit salvation before God. Salvation is by grace alone through faith alone, based solely on Christ’s atonement.”

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    Mulder's crusade was finding the truth. Everyone but him saw it as foolish but he took a stand for the truth.
     
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