VEXING QUESTIONS ON BAPTISM (Epilogue)

DOES SALVATION DEPEND ON BAPTISM?

REVIEW OF THE FACTS:
There are three separate apostolic commissions.
1. On unnamed mountain in Galilee: Matthew 28:19 baptism invoking trinity.
2. On unnamed mountain in Galilee: Mark 16:16: compulsory baptism under threat of damnation
3. On Mount of Olives at Jerusalem: Luke 24; John 20; Acts 1: no water baptism required.
Mark 16:16. St. Mark is the only place in the Gospels that Jesus made baptism a compulsory prerequisite to gain salvation, notwithstanding the old water of separation invoked by Ananias upon Saul of Tarsus at Damascus after his conversion and regeneration by the blood of Christ. (Acts 22:16)

CREDIBILITY OF MARK 16: 16.
This enforced link between water and sin’s remission, under threat of damnation for non-compliance, is unique to the whole New Testament. This was not even hinted by John the Baptist or Jesus.

A cross section of Bible literati and academia with the best scholars versed in original languages agree that this last half of the chapter was lost and replaced during or after the 4th century A.D. This was about the same period in which the first Latin Bible was scribed by Constantine’s scholars.

The most ancient Greek manuscripts of the New Testament originated at this time. They are the Codex Vaticanus now in Rome and the Codex Sinaiticus in the British Library, the only entire copy of the original Greek New Testament in existence.

NOTE WELL!
The rapidly increasing bibliolatry, especially right wing fundamentalism (i.e. the KJV is the only Bible in heaven) in the last 60 years, rejects any exhaustive analyses of key self evident doctrines by harmonizing the Gospels and the Epistles through the lives of Jesus, Peter and Paul. This includes the history of the early church by Dr. Luke in the Acts of the Apostles. Most of the 2, 800 different Christian sects and denominations created in the 19th century were through bibliolatry. E.g. by the process of dishonest pragmatism key a few key verses wrested away from the context are used as the arbiter of the rest of Scripture to support a new fangled doctrine, rejected elsewhere by the prophets, the apostles and Christ’s teachings.

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