Is Baptism A Requirement For Salvation?
Baptism is a wonderful symbol of salvation. It is as though you are burying
your old self and rising from the grave as a new, clean creature, cleansed by
the living water of YAHUSHUA HA MASHIACH. Baptism is important and is a public
confession of what YAHUSHUA (in Greek Jesus Christ) has done in the live of a
believer.
However, baptism is not necessary for salvation. If it were, YAHUSHUA would not
have promised the thief on the cross that he would be with HIM in paradise.
Furthermore, if baptism were a requirement for salvation,
then we could no
longer quote the Scripture:
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith...not by works."
Ephesians 2:8-9
Our salvation is a free gift from YAHUVEH, through HIS grace. Once we repent of
our sins and receive that gift, we are saved. Many follow that decision with a
public, symbolic profession of their faith by being baptized.
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