There is one baptism.

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Remember,
Therefore, go forth and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have ever commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, even to the consummation of the age."​
Matthew 28:19-20
But that is not what it means. The Apostles baptized believers in the name of Jesus Christ, the NT name of the Trinity.
 

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Remember,
Therefore, go forth and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have ever commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, even to the consummation of the age."​
Matthew 28:19-20
The Apostles did this, baptizing in the Name of Jesus Christ. You miss it completely using the pope's method.
 

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Some teach that there are many baptisms, many teach that there are two - one with water, another with the Holy Spirit - yet the holy scriptures assert that there is one baptism just as there is one faith and one lord. Thus, the holy apostle wrote:
Be anxious to preserve the unity of the Spirit within the bonds of peace. One body and one Spirit: to this you have been called by the one hope of your calling: one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.​
Ephesians 4:3-6

And this baptism is a necessity, for the Lord himself, while he was personally present upon this Earth said:
Jesus responded: "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless one has been reborn by water and the Holy Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God. What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. You should not be amazed that I said to you: You must be born anew. The Spirit inspires where he wills. And you hear his voice, but you do not know where he comes from, or where he is going. So it is with all who are born of the Spirit."​
John 3:5-8
The one baptism is the water baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus. You sound as if you do not want the Spirit baptism. You don't want God in your life.
 

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The one baptism is the water baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus. You sound as if you do not want the Spirit baptism. You don't want God in your life.
Acts teaches that since Pentecost, the new birth includes the gift of the Holy Spirit all believers have.
 

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What messed-up concepts of Christian baptism BOTH of you have. Wrong from beginning to end.

The one makes a big deal of the mental gymnastics that some churches imagine amount to a second (and better?) baptism which, however, Christ never taught! And the other has no idea what is meant by the "gift of the Holy Spirit."

If this is a lesson of some sort, it probably is a good lesson about the dangers of "Do-it-yourself Christianity" which anyone who knows the first thing about the Bible and what Christ taught knows that it is a mistake to scorn participation with the institutional Church.
 

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The one baptism is the water baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus. You sound as if you do not want the Spirit baptism. You don't want God in your life.
When scripture has "baptise" and "baptism" in a passage it ought to be the normal and natural reading to take it as a reference to water washing as the sacramental sign of washing away sins and receiving the Holy Spirit because that is how Jesus Christ described the new birth to Nicodemus and how saints Peter and Paul write about baptism.

Nowadays, with Pentecostal ideas abounding it is common for professing Christians who are influenced by Pentecostal teaching and terminology to treat baptism as two very different things. It is the reverse of bifurcation in argument. It is taking one word and making it mean two completely distinct and different things in a system of theology that lays emphasis on personal feelings and experiences.

Scripture, however does not lay great emphasis on two separate baptisms, it lays emphasis on baptism as a unifying sacrament that helps to form the unity of Christians in the body of Christ. That is why saint Paul - when discussing the body of Christ and the variety of people and gifts that people receive - writes these words:
Now concerning spiritual things, I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers. You know that when you were Gentiles, you approached mute idols, doing what you were led to do. Because of this, I would have you know that no one speaking in the Spirit of God utters a curse against Jesus. And no one is able to say that Jesus is Lord, except in the Holy Spirit. Truly, there are diverse graces, but the same Spirit. And there are diverse ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diverse works, but the same God, who works everything in everyone. However, the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one toward what is beneficial. Certainly, to one, through the Spirit, is given words of wisdom; but to another, according to the same Spirit, words of knowledge; to another, in the same Spirit, faith; to another, in the one Spirit, the gift of healing; to another, miraculous works; to another, prophecy; to another, the discernment of spirits; to another, different kinds of languages; to another, the interpretation of words. But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one according to his will. For just as the body is one, and yet has many parts, so all the parts of the body, though they are many, are only one body. So also is Christ. And indeed, in one Spirit, we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether servant or free. And we all drank in the one Spirit.​
1 Corinthians 12:1-13

Saint Paul was not a modern-day Pentecostal theologian or pastor. HIs thinking is very unlike the gift-oriented theology of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians today. Saint Paul thinks of baptism as unifying Christians in a common life in Christ as members (parts) of the body (church) which is in the world as well as redeemed in the heavens. This is why there is one baptism, it is because there is one body and one Lord. As saint Paul wrote in Ephesians chapter four (quoted in the original post).
 

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The one baptism is the water baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus. You sound as if you do not want the Spirit baptism. You don't want God in your life.
It's probably more a case of you not realizing that the historic churches believe that the Holy Ghost is imparted by (the sacrament of) Baptism.
 
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