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16 Cards in this Set
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What is baptism?
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Baptism is the immersion of a believer in christ in water in name of the Father, Son, Holy spirit.
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Is Baptism a church ordinance?
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Yes
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How do we know?
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Christ commanded it.
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Is Baptism essential to salvation?
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Yes, according to the teachings of the scripture. "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be dammed. "Mark 16:16, Also Matthew 28:18-20 and Romans 6:3-5.
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Who are the subjects of baptism?
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Believers in christ.
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Would it be a christian baptism if the man did not repent and believe?
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No, We are commanded to baptize such as repent and believe.
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What is the design of baptism?
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Baptism is to show forth our death,burial, and resurrection, and to insure our faith in the death, burial and resurrection of the blessed christ.
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What is the figurative expression of baptism?
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It is to declare the inward washing away of our sins.
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Why do you believe that immersion is the only proper method?
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Because it is the only method that will demonstrate the death, burial, resurrection. The bible says that we are born of christ by baptism. Romans 6:3-4 "Know ye not,that so many of us where baptized into his death? Therefore, we are buried with by baptism into his death; that like as christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the father, even so, we should walk in newness of life."
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Can any other method show death, burial, and resurrection?
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No
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Would you baptize an infant?
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No
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Why not?
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He is not capable of repenting and believing.
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Have you proof that immersion is the proper way of baptism?
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By circumstantial evidence and historical records. John baptized in Enon because there was much water. Jesus went down in the Jordan to be baptized by John. Philip and the eunuch went down into the river. Acts 8:36-39; Matthew3:13-16.
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Would it had been necessary for them to have come down into the water to be sprinkled?
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No.
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Why then did they go down into the river?
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To be immersed.
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Is immersion the only scriptural baptism?
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Yes, For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall also be in the likeness of him in his resurrection.
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