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Now, must I be arrogant or condescending when people who I believe are confused as to the Scripture's teaching on Baptism? Absolutely not. God forbid. But must I accept that my conviction on Baptism is a "personal view". Absolutely not. Who we do or don't baptize is incredibly important. How we do or don't view our baptism is incredibly important.
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Rich, wouldn't baptists feel the same way?
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In fact, it's because of the Baptism forum that I understand the nature of my Baptism where I once was very confused.
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That's great! Seriously, it is, but that forum has confused me more than I've ever been confused about anything in my entire life. The spirit of anger, arrogance, and pride so rule that forum that I get angry just visiting it for a few moments.
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What I confess, I believe is Truth, the very Word of God and I simply cannot include Baptism as something that can be even placed in the same neighborhood as "indifferent doctrines".
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Again, wouldn't baptists feel this way as well?
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I don't think you intended to say that but I want to be very clear lest others interpret your words as such.
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I don't think he intended to say that either, but that's the
problem. Everyone enters the baptism forum believing what they do is the gospel truth they are called to stand on, defend, preach, etc. This leads to all the problems. How many members have we lost, how many former friends now no longer speak to each other because of that forum? I really don't see the blessings of it out weighing the curses. I really don't, and that has nothing to do with deciding what the bible says "on your own", if anything the problem is the opposite of that!