One of the 28
Fundamental Beliefs of the
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Seventh Day
Adventist Church is Baptism.
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By baptism we confess our faith
and the death and resurrection
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of Jesus Christ, and
testify of our death to sin,
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and of our purpose to
walk in newness of life,
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thus we acknowledge
Christ as Lord and Savior.
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We become His people
and are received as members
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by His church. Baptism
is a symbol of our union
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with Christ, the forgiveness
of our sins and our reception
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of the Holy Spirit. It
is by immersion in water
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and is contingent on
an affirmation of faith in
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Jesus and evidence of
the repentance of sin.
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It follows instructions
in the Holy Scriptures,
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and acceptance
of their teaching.
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Matthew 28:19 and 20, Go
therefore and make disciples
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of all the nations, baptizing
them in the name of the
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Father and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit, teaching
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them to observe all things
that I have commanded you.
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