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hisalone said:
The Holy Spirit baptizes us into Christ, a Spiritual, irresistable consecration to the priesthood. This is spoken of many places in the N.T.

Water baptism is our "personal" choosing of consecration to this priesthood which is the calling of God on ALL born again Christians.

This is the reason that water baptism is so important, to neglect it is in effect to deny God's calling on our lives. It is an act of obedience and submission, willingly consecrating ourselves to the service of God.
1. It is very sad that you voluntarily set yourself apart from the Church to which the Holy Spirit was first given as the "pillar and ground of the truth" (1Tim 3:15; cf. Eph 4:8-13f). It isn't that we put our trust in men nor in the traditions of men but it was God's will to build the Church through the instrumentality of men to whom was given the Holy Spirit. I hold to the reality of "propositional truth" since the Scriptures are divinely inspired. I do not hold to any idea that "individual insights" trump God's established method of disseminating His truth. If you feel justified in rejecting hundreds of years of scholarship by thousands of godly men and women who have been indwelt by the Spirit of God, why should I or anyone else listen to you, seeing that you are but likewise a man? NO ONE goes it alone.... !! (1Jh 2:19; 4:1)

Perhaps you would benefit from reading this: Tradition: Romish and Protestant, by John Murray (see esp. the latter part).

2. Could you please provide specific biblical texts which teach that baptism signifies one's consecration to a priesthood?

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