Does a believing faith include baptism?

DOES A BELIEVING FAITH INCLUDE BAPTISM? a discovery study

PREPARED BY DANIEL KEERAN, MSW Victoria, BC, Canada

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?

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