If involuntary baptism could save a baby (at your funeral they will always say it did), then involuntary baptism should also save an older child, or an adult.<\/p>\n
How can water and a ceremonial act done to a person by others, without any free will by the person, make one ready for heaven, for a lifetime—but the rules and criteria for getting to heaven change if another person wants to get saved anytime after babyhood?<\/p>\n
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And those in another camp say that babies and children get an automatic free pass to heaven, up until\u00a0 ? some age ? —undefined ?, variable ?, decided by ?<\/p>\n
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Anyone outside those gated theological mega theme parks, each with their own exclusive membership requirements, looks at what I just wrote and shakes their head or laughs.<\/p>\n
It obviously looks like three different ways to get saved—and there’s supposed to be only one way.<\/p>\n
So it didn’t really get fixed 500 years ago, and we muddle around over and over again, and send mixed messages to a desperate world that needs to hear about Jesus, straight from the Bible, unfiltered by men with thinly veiled agendas of money, power, and control.<\/p>\n
Too bad that nobody in charge of keeping the shows running can see those major business operations for what they are—and laugh too.<\/p>\n
AND CLOSE THEIR DOCTRINE BOOKS AND SPEND TIME IN THE BIBLE.<\/p>\n
Since when is studying the Bible not good enough?<\/p>\n
I know why—because they can’t walk away from what they built.<\/p>\n
“Give it up—sell it—let it go—and follow Me.”<\/p>\n
Can’t do it—have to go—got too much invested—gotta keep it going—[sorry, Jesus].<\/p>\n
That story still ends with one word—S A D !<\/p>\n
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