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DOES A BELIEVING FAITH INCLUDE
BAPTISM? a discovery study
PREPARED BY DANIEL KEERAN, MSW
Victoria, BC, Canada
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Does A Believing Faith Include Baptism?
A Discovery Study (For more, visit here http://goo.gl/SZRLEb)
Mark 16:15-16 He said to them, Go into all the world and preach the gospel to
all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but
whoever does not believe will be condemned.
QUESTION: According to these words, does the gospel that
is believed include baptism?
Acts 2: 38-41
Peter replied, “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. The promise is for you
and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the
Lord our God will call.” With many other words he warned
them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this
corrupt generation.” Those who accepted his message were
baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number
that day.
QUESTION: According to these words, did Peter’s message
accepted by those who heard him include baptism?
Acts 8:12 But when they believed Philip as he proclaimed the good news
of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were
baptized, both men and women.
QUESTION: According to these words, does the good news
that is believed include baptism?
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Acts 8:35-36 Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told
him the good news about Jesus. As they traveled along the road,
they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is
water. What can stand in the way of my being baptized?”
QUESTION: According to these words, does the good news
about Jesus include baptism?
Acts 16:31-34 They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be
saved—you and your household.” Then they spoke the word of
the Lord to him and to all the others in his house. At that hour
of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then
immediately he and all his household were baptized. The jailer
brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was
filled with joy because he had come to believe in God—he and
his whole household.
QUESTION: According to this account, did believing in the
Lord Jesus, in God, and the word of the Lord spoken to the
jailer and his household include something about baptism?
Acts 18:8 Crispus, the synagogue leader, and his entire household
believed in the Lord; and many of the Corinthians who heard
Paul believed and were baptized.
QUESTION: According to these words, did Paul's message
that was heard and believed by the Corinthians include
baptism?
Acts 19:2-3 “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They
answered, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy
Spirit.” So Paul asked, “Then what baptism did you receive?”
QUESTION: According to these words, does believing
include baptism?
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Romans 6:3-7
Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ
Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried
with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ
was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we
too may live a new life.
For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will
certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. For
we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the
body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no
longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been
set free from sin.
QUESTION: According to these words, did Paul’s message
to the Romans include baptism?
Galatians 3:26-27
So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for
all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed
yourselves with Christ.
QUESTION: According to these words to the Galatians, did
faith in Christ Jesus include baptism?
Colossians 2:12-13
….having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were
also raised with him through your faith in the working of God,
who raised him from the dead. When you were dead in your
sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you
alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins…
QUESTION: According to these words, did Paul’s message
to the Colossians include baptism?