Items related to "A Sick Man by the Pool of Bethsaida", 20 total items found

Why must you perform baptism in living water, and not in a pool or baptistery?        

You say salvation is by grace, but aren't there any conditions to us receiving grace?        

Can we receive the grace of forgiveness and eternal life by saying, "Jesus is my Lord'?        

Isn't Christ the end of the law? Why should Christians today still observe the law by keeping the Sabbath?        

Are we saved by these two dimensions of grace (as mentioned in "What are the two dimensions of salvation?")?        

Salvation is by grace through faith, not by works (Ephesians 2:8,9). Aren't sacraments of works, not of faith?        

If Christ removed the law by nailing it to the cross (Col 2:14), then why do believers still need to keep that Sabbath?        

The Bible states that our sins are washed away by the blood of Christ (Revelation 1:5). How can the water during baptism actually remove a person's sins?        

The apostle Paul stresses that Abraham was justified before circumcision, not after (Romans 4:10-12). Circumcision was only a sign of the righteousness he had already received by faith. Aren't sacraments likewise only signs, with no effect?        

Is sprinkling a form of baptism? God promised in Ezekiel 36:25 that He would sprinkle on His people to make them clean. 1 Peter 1:2 states that believers have been sprinkled by the blood of Jesus Christ. The author of Hebrews also confirms that our hearts