Baptism

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Christian baptism is a voluntary ceremony

whereby a person publicly declares

he has come to a saving faith in Jesus Christ.

Christian baptism is performed under the authority of a New Testament Church

by dipping the believer under water and lifting him up again,

representing the death, burial, and resurrection.

Paul explained this in Romans 6.

3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ

were baptized into his death?

4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death:

that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father,

even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Baptism does not save;

it is not required for salvation.

Christian baptism is an act of obedience,

and is required for membership in the Church

As Jesus was baptized in obedience (Matthew 3:15),

so we should be as well.

It is also part of the great commission—

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:

20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:

and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Publicly confessing one's faith,

whether by word Romans 10:9-10 or action Acts 2:38

while not required for salvation,

is a way of acknowledging the Father and a sign of a saving faith

Matthew 10:32-33

The biblical requirements for baptism are simple:

have a saving relationship with Jesus Christ,

and understand what baptism means.

The Bible adds no requirements for age,

or the length of time someone has been a believer Acts 8:34-38

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.

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Anabaptist Pilgrim Church

Authority to Baptize

Baptism is Immersion

Baptism of Infants

Baptism of Jesus

Baptism of John

Baptist Position on Baptism

Baptized by One Spirit into One Body

Baptized in the Spirit

Blood Before Water

Book of Common Prayer and the Doctrine of Baptismal Regeneration

Confrimation: An Explanation, Defense and Refutation of the Rite

Did Ancient Baptists Refuse to Recognize Pedobaptist Societies as Scriptural?

Four Conditions For Scriptural Baptism

Fresh Look at Scriptural Baptism

Have You Received the Baptism of the Holy Ghost?

Infant Baptism

Infant Baptism is an Evil because it Contradicts Justification by Faith

Infant Baptism - Its History and Its Harm

Pædobaptists

Perpetuity of Baptism

Prebysterian Assembly's (1854) Decision Regarding Romish Baptisms and Ordinations

Proper Administrator

Relationship of Infant Baptism to Popery

Salvation Not In Baptism

Those Ignorant Baptists

True Nature of Baptism

Water Or Spirit Baptism? (1): Romans 6

Water Or Spirit Baptism? (2): I Corinthians 12:13

We Have No Right to Change the Ordinance of Baptism

What is the True Meaning of Baptism?

What Saves - Baptism or Jesus Christ?

Why Am I Not Baptized?

Why The Baptists Do Not Baptize Infants

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