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Baptismal Regeneration: The use of this expression betrays the fundamental misunderstanding of our view of Scripture. The water has NO merit NOR does baptism cause us to EARN our salvation. Water is merely the substance that God designated to be the DIVIDING LINE between the lost and the saved. Examples: Namaan (2 Ki 5:14); Blind Man (Jn 9:6-7). Neither Namaan nor the Blind Man felt their compliance with divinely stipulated acts constituted working for their salvation or in some way meriting subsequent blessing. They understood their healing was due totally to the grace of God. So it is with baptism.
Key KJV Scriptures:
Romans 3:23-26; 6:3-7; Ephesians 2:8-10; Colossians 2:12-13; Titus 3:4-7; 1 Peter 3:21
Key KJV Scriptures: Full Text
19 indexed verses · Showing 1–19. Read each passage in its chapter context.
Romans 3:23 (KJV)
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Romans 3:24 (KJV)
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Romans 3:25 (KJV)
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Romans 3:26 (KJV)
To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Romans 6:3 (KJV)
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Romans 6:4 (KJV)
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Romans 6:5 (KJV)
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Romans 6:6 (KJV)
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Romans 6:7 (KJV)
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Ephesians 2:8 (KJV)
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Ephesians 2:9 (KJV)
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Ephesians 2:10 (KJV)
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Colossians 2:12 (KJV)
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Colossians 2:13 (KJV)
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
Titus 3:4 (KJV)
But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
Titus 3:5 (KJV)
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Titus 3:6 (KJV)
Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
Titus 3:7 (KJV)
That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
1 Peter 3:21 (KJV)
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: