@Horsefrost Are you sure you're sober? BC I don't know what you mean. "Doctor's prescription page"?

@MoveAlong No doubt you don't understand the post either.

@MoveAlong Sometimes it's necessary to go into detail, or people won't understand why we believe what we believe and it's important not only to know what we believe, but especially why, or we will fall for any wind of doctrine.

@DanielsASJ Paul said, physical baptism doesn't convert anyone from the inside. If one could get saved by physically going to get baptized, that would be works-based salvation, which Paul spoke against.

@LadyGrace Maybe I am unable to explain but what you commented just now is what I actually mean.

@DanielsASJ It's not baptism of the Soul. It's baptism of the Spirit. That is, the minute we receive Christ as Savior, our DEAD SPIRIT is completely transformed by the HOLY SPIRIT, bringing our spirit ALIVE in Christ, which saves one's soul. We have a brand new life in Christ and a brand new beginning in him.

@FreestyleArt So right. Perfect sense. ❤🫂🙏

@GodSpeed63 Some people take John 3:5 to mean we must be baptized in order to be saved and enter heaven. I just want to reiterate that the act of Baptism doesn't save people. It is a response or public declaration of your faith and full belief in Christ. Without full, sincere repentance before God, one is not saved. You can be saved by God without baptism. Like the thief on the cross.

Jesus said to baptize, so we should, but it isn't a requirement for salvation. If someone is never able to get baptized, that doesn't mean they're not saved.

He was not referring to literal water (i.e. baptism or the amniotic fluid in the womb), but was referring to the need for spiritual cleansing or renewal. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. Baptism is a symbolic representation of a believer's spiritual cleansing and identification with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is a symbolic washing away of sins and a representation of new life in Christ. If people had to be baptized before they could enter heaven, then a lot of people would miss it, because for one reason or another, they might have died before they could get baptized. Jesus promised the thief on the cross, who made public confession that he believed Jesus was his Savior, that he would be with him that very day in Paradise.

Ephesians 2:8-9 states, "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast."

This verse emphasizes that salvation is a free gift received through faith, not through any works, including baptism.

Romans 3:22 and 4:5 also highlight that salvation is received through faith, not through works of the law.

@cherokeepatti Not sure what you mean. I don't think it's people comparing themselves to others. It has to do with interpretation, allowing the Holy Spirit to rightly divide the word, and following what God said to do in His word. In his word he says that baptism does not save and I think that's very important to know when it comes to Salvation and our Eternal destination.

@LadyGrace some people do, and they are hard to be around when they do.

@cherokeepatti Some people do. As long as the Word of God is spread, the function is done. God's will needs to carried out by all. Rich, poor, arrogant, simple, people with attitude, people without attitude. God's word is the essence. God uses as he wills, as a carrier. That's not arrogance. That's service to God, as long as they tell God's truths. Paul doesn’t believe, as shown in scripture, that baptism saves. He wasn’t comparing himself to others, splitting hairs, nor arrogant.