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	<title>Comments on: Waiting to be baptized&#8230;.</title>
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		<title>by: JK</title>
		<link>http://www.clarkecomments.com/archives/waiting-to-be-baptized/#comment-11414</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Again it was said &quot;Sans saving faith, baptism is but another evidence of self righteousness.&quot;

Now to clarify, I suppose &quot;Sans&quot; means &quot;without.&quot; Without saving faith baptism is nothing, one might say, and that is true, YET at the same time, without baptism there is no saving faith.  Only a faith that prompts obedience to Peter's command in Acts 2:38 &quot;Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit&quot; is a saving faith. A faith that stops short of that is a dead faith.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Again it was said &#8220;Sans saving faith, baptism is but another evidence of self righteousness.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now to clarify, I suppose &#8220;Sans&#8221; means &#8220;without.&#8221; Without saving faith baptism is nothing, one might say, and that is true, YET at the same time, without baptism there is no saving faith.  Only a faith that prompts obedience to Peter&#8217;s command in Acts 2:38 &#8220;Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit&#8221; is a saving faith. A faith that stops short of that is a dead faith.
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		<title>by: JK</title>
		<link>http://www.clarkecomments.com/archives/waiting-to-be-baptized/#comment-11413</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Royce Ogle Says: &quot;baptism is but another evidence of self righteousness.&quot;

Ridiculous hogwash!  Even Luther (who supposedly taught justification by faith alone) disagrees with your nonsense.  In his commentary on Galatians 3:27 Martin Luther says

&quot;The garment of Adam must come off like soiled clothes. Of course, it is not as simple as changing one's clothes. But God makes it simple. He clothes us with the righteousness of Christ by means of Baptism, as the Apostle says in this verse: 'As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.' With this change of garments a new birth, a new life stirs in us. New affections toward God spring up in the heart. New determinations affect our will. All this is to put on Christ according to the Gospel. Needless to say, when we have put on the robe of the righteousness of Christ we must not forget to put on also the mantle of the imitation of Christ.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Royce Ogle Says: &#8220;baptism is but another evidence of self righteousness.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ridiculous hogwash!  Even Luther (who supposedly taught justification by faith alone) disagrees with your nonsense.  In his commentary on Galatians 3:27 Martin Luther says</p>
<p>&#8220;The garment of Adam must come off like soiled clothes. Of course, it is not as simple as changing one&#8217;s clothes. But God makes it simple. He clothes us with the righteousness of Christ by means of Baptism, as the Apostle says in this verse: &#8216;As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.&#8217; With this change of garments a new birth, a new life stirs in us. New affections toward God spring up in the heart. New determinations affect our will. All this is to put on Christ according to the Gospel. Needless to say, when we have put on the robe of the righteousness of Christ we must not forget to put on also the mantle of the imitation of Christ.&#8221;
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		<title>by: shannon</title>
		<link>http://www.clarkecomments.com/archives/waiting-to-be-baptized/#comment-4447</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Have enjoyed rummaging through your posts. I put this one up this week:

http://lookinferlearnin.wordpress.com/2006/11/08/baptism-yielding-to-the-will-of-god/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have enjoyed rummaging through your posts. I put this one up this week:</p>
<p><a href='http://lookinferlearnin.wordpress.com/2006/11/08/baptism-yielding-to-the-will-of-god/' rel='nofollow'>http://lookinferlearnin.wordpress.com/2006/11/08/baptism-yielding-to-the-will-of-god/</a>
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