{"id":3557,"date":"2012-11-23T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2015-03-19T14:41:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T22:41:07","slug":"baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2012\/11\/23\/baptism","title":{"rendered":"What The Bible Teaches About Baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"African<\/a><\/p>\n

I just added an article about baptism to my repository of essays and Bible studies<\/a>. It\u2019s a pdf called What The Bible Teaches About Baptism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

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Why Should I Be Baptized?<\/h3>\n

\u201cWhy should I be baptized?\u201d is a reasonable question, but I prefer the question asked by the Ethiopian eunuch: \u201cLook, here is water. Why shouldn\u2019t I be baptized?<\/strong>\u2019\u201d (Acts 8:36). Getting baptized is something that Christians do \u2013 it should be your default decision for the following reasons:<\/p>\n

1) I Should Be Baptized To Obey Jesus<\/h4>\n

Jesus commanded his apostles to baptize people as they proclaimed the gospel (Matthew 28:18\u201320), and so we see that he expects new believers to be baptized as part of the process of becoming his disciples.<\/p>\n

2) I Should Be Baptized To Identify With Jesus<\/h4>\n

Being baptized is a proclamation of our spiritual union with Christ. Colossians 2:12 says that Christians are \u201cburied with [Jesus] in baptism\u201d and that we are then \u201craised with him through our faith in the working of God, who raised [Jesus] from the dead.\u201d Another way to approach this point is to recognize that Jesus, though without sin, was baptized and thereby identified with us, and we complete the cycle when we are baptized and likewise identify with him.<\/p>\n

3) I Should Be Baptized To Proclaim My Devotion To Jesus<\/h4>\n

In 1 Peter 3:21, baptism is described as \u201cthe pledge of a clear conscience toward God\u201d (that\u2019s the NIV: some other translations phrase it as \u201can appeal to God for a good conscience\u201d). Whichever is the better rendering in English, it is clear that baptism is an act of formally giving ourselves to God.<\/p>\n

And so if you name Christ as your Lord and have not been baptized, then seize this opportunity and be baptized.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest of the pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just added an article about baptism to my repository of essays and Bible studies. It\u2019s a pdf called What The Bible Teaches About Baptism. Here\u2019s an excerpt: Why Should I Be Baptized? \u201cWhy should I be baptized?\u201d is a reasonable question, but I prefer the question asked by the Ethiopian eunuch: \u201cLook, here is water. \u2026 Continue reading \u201cWhat The Bible Teaches About Baptism\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6Ded-baptism","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3811,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions\/3811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}