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1. As long as the denomination does not change the words or the meaning of the words, "in the name of...", Christ's institution is efficacious./Mark 16:16, Eph. 2:8,9. Mark 16:16 tells us that baptism saves us through faith alone. Eph. 2:8, 9 tells us that nothing that saves us is a work.


(fred) Hmmm...That sounds more like some sort of magical mantra formula than biblical doctrine. Does it even matter that the person's life changes and conforms to godliness, or is such a change irrelevant? This viewpoint has the trappings of your general, run of the mill non-Lordship, carnal Christian doctrine believing gospel.

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2. You asked for an example; I gave you an example./Fruits of faith follow in children also./Rom. 11:33.
3. Acts 2:38; Acts 22:16; Gal. 3:26, 27; 1 Peter 3:21; Rom. 6:3; 1 Cor.6:11; Mark 16:16; Eph. 5: 25, 26.


(Fred) SO you are telling me that children, nay, infants, have the ability to mortify the flesh as Romans 6 proclaims, to bear the fruits of the spirit as listed in Galatians 5, crucify themselves daily to follow Christ? Where have you ever seen this? None of these passages you list for us even suggest such a thing. You will need to give something more substantial that that, and I would add, it will need to be correctly interpreted. So far, all I have read from you is Lutheran tradition.

Fred

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