Does Water Baptism Save?

A Biblical Refutation of Baptismal Regeneration

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS



Introduction



1. The Bible teaches that to be saved a person must “BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.”



2. The Bible teaches throughout the New Testament that FAITH and FAITH ALONE is necessary for salvation.



3. EPHESIANS 2:8-9 is a passage which God has given to answer this key question: HOW IS A PERSON SAVED? This important doctrinal verse says nothing about water baptism.

 


4. Water baptism is a WORK (something that man does to please God), and yet the Bible teaches again and again that a person is not saved by works.



5. When is a person saved? Is a person saved at the moment he believes on the Lord Jesus Christ or is a person saved the moment he is baptized in water?


 

6.  Is water baptism essential?

 

7.   If a person is not baptized in water, is he saved?

 

8.    Passages That Seem to Teach that Water Baptism Saves

Mark 16:16

 

John 3:5

 

Acts 2:38

 

Acts 22:16

 

1 Peter 3:20-21

 

9.      Mistakes That Baptismal Regenerationists Often Make


 

10.    Conclusion.


 

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