The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Is water baptism to be practiced today?

Methinks you will be waiting for a proof acceptable to YOU for a lifetime should the Lord not open your eyes to this fundamental and most necessary truth. Paul's words are crystal clear to those who have been given to see. His point, which he labors to make in the first 3 chapters of Galatians is that faith ALONE, not faith + xxxx is the means of justification. Further, he specifically mentions 'circumcision', which some of the Jews were demanding be added to faith for salvation. But Abraham was justified (saved) when "he believed God and it was reckoned unto him as righteousness"; the very definition of justification... and thereafter he received the covenantal sign of circumcision. Thus, Paul concludes that believing Gentiles (uncircumcised) are saved no less than believing Jews (circumcised). The sign of the covenant thus has no part of salvation. Then in Colossians, Paul shows that circumcision, the pre-Messianic covenantal sign has been replaced by baptism, the post-Messianic sign of the new covenant (Col 2:12,13). Are we to believe that Paul changed his mind in this regard so that one is not justified by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone?

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