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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        

The Lord Jesus instructed his disciples, "If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet" (Jn 13:14). But why is it that during the sacrament of footwashing in your church, only the ministers wash the fe        

Transubstantiation teaches that after giving thanks, the bread and grape wine transform materially into the physical body and blood of the Lord Jesus. Consubstantiation teaches that the physical body and blood coexist with the bread and the grape wine. Wh        

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?        

Does this mean that you should wait a while after baptism (till after your feet have become "dirtied') to receive footwashing?        

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

Is anyone really so evil that he or she deserves the eternal punishment of hell? Can God not forgive those who don't believe in Him?        

Why does it matter how a person is baptized? And if I've already been baptized in another church, must I be baptized again?        

Didn't the disciples in Troas worship and have Holy Communion with Paul on the first day of the week (Acts 20:7)?        

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