{"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 arti\u00adcle about bap\u00adtism to my repos\u00adi\u00adto\u00adry of essays and Bible stud\u00adies<\/a>. It\u2019s a pdf called What The Bible Teach\u00ades About Bap\u00adtism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

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

\u201cWhy should I be bap\u00adtized?\u201d is a rea\u00adson\u00adable ques\u00adtion, but I pre\u00adfer the ques\u00adtion asked by the Ethiopi\u00adan eunuch: \u201cLook, here is water. Why should\u00adn\u2019t I be bap\u00adtized?<\/strong>\u2019\u201d (Acts 8:36). Get\u00adting bap\u00adtized is some\u00adthing that Chris\u00adtians do \u2013 it should be your default deci\u00adsion for the fol\u00adlow\u00ading rea\u00adsons:<\/p>\n

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

Jesus com\u00admand\u00aded his apos\u00adtles to bap\u00adtize peo\u00adple as they pro\u00adclaimed the gospel (Matthew 28:18\u201320), and so we see that he expects new believ\u00aders to be bap\u00adtized as part of the process of becom\u00ading his dis\u00adci\u00adples.<\/p>\n

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

Being bap\u00adtized is a procla\u00adma\u00adtion of our spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal union with Christ. Colos\u00adsians 2:12 says that Chris\u00adtians are \u201cburied with [Jesus] in bap\u00adtism\u201d and that we are then \u201craised with him through our faith in the work\u00ading of God, who raised [Jesus] from the dead.\u201d Anoth\u00ader way to approach this point is to rec\u00adog\u00adnize that Jesus, though with\u00adout sin, was bap\u00adtized and there\u00adby iden\u00adti\u00adfied with us, and we com\u00adplete the cycle when we are bap\u00adtized and like\u00adwise iden\u00adti\u00adfy with him.<\/p>\n

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

In 1 Peter 3:21, bap\u00adtism is described as \u201cthe pledge of a clear con\u00adscience toward God\u201d (that\u2019s the NIV: some oth\u00ader trans\u00adla\u00adtions phrase it as \u201can appeal to God for a good con\u00adscience\u201d). Whichev\u00ader is the bet\u00adter ren\u00adder\u00ading in Eng\u00adlish, it is clear that bap\u00adtism is an act of for\u00admal\u00adly giv\u00ading our\u00adselves to God.<\/p>\n

And so if you name Christ as your Lord and have not been bap\u00adtized, then seize this oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty and be bap\u00adtized.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

I just added an arti\u00adcle about bap\u00adtism to my repos\u00adi\u00adto\u00adry of essays and Bible stud\u00adies. It\u2019s a pdf called What The Bible Teach\u00ades About Bap\u00adtism. Here\u2019s an excerpt: Why Should I Be Bap\u00adtized? \u201cWhy should I be bap\u00adtized?\u201d is a rea\u00adson\u00adable ques\u00adtion, but I pre\u00adfer the ques\u00adtion asked by the Ethiopi\u00adan eunuch: \u201cLook, here is water. \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cWhat The Bible Teach\u00ades About Bap\u00adtism\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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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}]}}