Salvation By Grace

TFL: The Suffering Christ Part 2

• Discussion picks up around 15:00

• Peter is not suggesting that the benefits of salvation are to be experienced as a result of any power of the baptismal ceremony or in the baptismal water

• Salvation may be portrayed in baptism it is not performed by baptism
• Sacrament is an excellent word – comes from the latin word sacramentum which is a soldier’s oath of alegiance and when a man or woman is baptised they are taking a soldier’s oath of allegiance
• How can a child of infancy take a soldier’s oath of allegiance? It is not possible and therefore we do not ask it
• Baptism is a profession of faith, not an assurance of salvation

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