{"id":3572,"date":"2022-02-20T14:24:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T19:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2022-02-20T14:24:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T19:24:53","slug":"is-water-baptism-required-for-salvation-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/?p=3572","title":{"rendered":"Is water baptism required for salvation Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/fb:like>

Sometimes individuals, churches, and denominations hold to a mistaken view of what the Bible teaches based on a string of favorite proof-texts. Those who believe in baptismal regeneration or baptismal remission of sins frequently point to Titus 3:5,<\/p>\n

Tit 3:5\u00a0 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; (KJV)<\/p>\n

Tit 3:5\u00a0 he saved us, but not because of anything we had done to gain his approval. Instead, because of his mercy he saved us through the washing in which the Holy Spirit gives us new birth and renewal. (GW, God’s Word translation)<\/p>\n

Tit 3:5 He saved us because of his mercy, and not because of any good things that we have done. God washed us by the power of the Holy Spirit. He gave us new birth and a fresh beginning. (CEV, Contemporary English Version)<\/p>\n

Tit 3:5 he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, (NET Bible)<\/p>\n

This passage is hardly a reference to ritual water baptism. If it were a reference to water baptism, this would be a contradiction to what Paul stated at the beginning of the sentence, “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us.”<\/p>\n

There is no reference in context to a human administrator of water baptism.<\/p>\n

This, then, is another reference to “real baptism,” which is accomplished by the Holy Spirit when we believe on and trust in our Lord Jesus Christ for salvation.<\/p>\n

Notice, once again (see John 3:5 for another instance), that two things are here joined by “and”: “washing of regeneration,\u00a0and<\/strong> renewing of the Holy Ghost.” This is another example of the Figure of Speech\u00a0Hendiadys<\/em>, where two words or things are mentioned but only one thing is meant. Thus, the “washing of regeneration,\u00a0even<\/strong> renewing of the Holy Ghost” are one thing, the same thing, not two things.<\/p>\n

The reference is to the spiritual cleansing by the Holy Spirit in real baptism as opposed to ritual water baptism which has no such efficacy, the regeneration and renewing which the Holy Spirit accomplishes in creating in us the new nature in Christ.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like><\/fb:like><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes individuals, churches, and denominations hold to a mistaken view of what the Bible teaches based on a string of favorite proof-texts. Those who believe in baptismal regeneration or baptismal remission of sins frequently point to Titus 3:5, Tit 3:5\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1920,160],"tags":[5305,5306],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dave-armstrong-discussions","category-doctrinal-discussions","tag-is-water-baptism-required-for-salvation-part-4","tag-titus-35-does-not-support-ritual-water-baptismal-remission-or-regeneration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}