The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidences of His Existence

by John E. Remsburg

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Is baptism essential to salvation?

“He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved” ([Mark xvi, 16]).

“Except a man be born of the water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God” ([John iii, 5]).

“Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them” ([Matthew xxviii, 19]).

Was the penitent thief baptized?

Paul says: “I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius.... For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel” ([1 Corinthians i, 14, 17]).