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Some Oneness (maybe all) claim that Acts 2:38 is " the Gospel," and the verse is always mentioned alone. The problem is that, if...

Most Christians would say that Numbers is a book that they avoid reading. And I admit that the censuses of Israel, from which the book gets ...

" Upon You have I leaned from before my birth; You are He who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of You "...

" We were buried, therefore, with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of th...

One of the claims made by certain groups, such as Baptists and Seventh-Day Adventists, regarding baptism is that immersion is the required m...

This is being posted for Christmas, 2019. We will talk a lot about the birth of Christ today. But I want to talk about why it matters that ...

Among Reformed Christians, the children of believers are baptized, not as a sign that they are saved, but because they are - by right - memb...

The Bible says a lot of things about babies, both before and after birth. For example, they are creations of God (Psalm 139:13), and they ar...

Opponents of infant baptism will often make arguments such as, "God has no grandchildren." Which is both true and irrelevant to ...

In Ephesians 4:4-5, Paul tells us, " There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your ca...

Oneness Pentecostals love to quote Acts 2:38: " Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiven...

One conclusion that I have had from the debate over believers' baptism versus infant baptism is that it is not a matter of the scriptura...

On the Desert Road to Gaza When it comes to the mode of baptism, all Baptists, most (maybe all) Pentecostals, and other groups, claim th...

Baptists will often cite the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist (Matthew 3:13-17, Mark 1:9-11, Luke 3:21-22) as evidence of immersion as t...

Among Oneness Pentecostals, i. e., those that hold a Sabellian view of the Godhead, represented primarily by the United Pentecostal Churc...

" Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John, who came down a...

" Baptismal regeneration " is the doctrine regarding baptism that claims that it is essential to salvation. The details vary. So...

Chapter 19 of the Book of Numbers is about the rituals of cleansing for those who are ritually unclean, such as from touching a dead body. F...

The church continued writing its experience of God after the death of the Apostles. I certainly admit and teach that that post-apostolic lit...

In the earliest days of the Reformation, Martin Luther based his stand on justification by faith alone. And with good reason, as history has...