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speratus said:
Henry,

Please feel free to answer any of the questions I posed to pilgrim regarding the Westminster and London Baptist confessions. These are honest questions. It appears to me that modern Reform and Reform Baptists no longer hold to these confessions or they interpret them in a way I don't understand.

I don't care what the confessions say if what they say isn't in the Bible. Dealing with what the statements you provided mean in context is something to be done by someone other then myself, but you're still evading the question. Where is the scriptural warrant for baptism being a means of the Holy Spirit's regeneration?

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And, if you wish to explain how modern Reform and Reform Baptists can interpret Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38; Acts 22;16; Gal. 3:26, 27; and 1 Peter 3:21 in such a way as to exclude the possibility of baptismal regeneration, I would appreciate that also.

Again, the question is being evaded. Even if an exegesis of those verses provided the possibility for baptismal regeneration (see again: https://www.the-highway.com/forum/showthr...amp;o=&vc=1 ), this means nothing, because we'd still be lacking the Scriptural warrant to believe in what the possibility would allow. And if Christian theology has degraded to the point that cardinal doctrines like regeneration hang on mere biblical "possibilities," then I'd rather go join the Ba'Hai and at least do things honestly.

To be clear, the supposed possibility would only be meaningful if my preconcieved theological construct required that I believe in baptismal regeneration. Are you able to show to us that your belief is not based upon this, but rather Scripture? Again, until this can be done, all other dialogue is meaningless.

Please don't take what I'm saying in a harsh manner- I'm quite enjoying this exchange, and am eager for a clear response to my question.

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