Hi all, I was baptized today and wanted to encourage everyone here to learn about the Gospel and what is involved. There are many different Christian faiths, but the key to understanding the Gospel involves three things...repent, baptism and salvation. Repent or returning from your sin is the hardest one for most people, as living without sin or trying not to sin is truly difficult. Baptism is the symbolic removal of sin via immersion with Christs blessing. Salvation is the concept of accepting Jesus as your personal savior and understanding that it comes through him. This is just a snippet of the ideas involved but I cannot recommend enough researching these topics learning for yourself. God Bless, V.
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The thief who hung next to Jesus was saved. Was he baptized?
When did Jesus commission the Sacrament? Before or after He hung on the cross?
There were a lot of things that He said before the cross, like love your neighbor as yourself, or do unto others as you would have them to do unto you. He preached his greatest message at the sermon on the mount, but, that was all in preparation for what would be after His resurrection. He said that He would tear down the temple and rebuild it in 3 days. Everything that Jesus said and did as He walked on the earth, was to prepare us for after the cross. Man created the Trinity and the use of sacraments, beginning in 285-325 AD.
Non-sequitor
The thief was still under the Old Covenant…the idea that man created the Sacraments is just another layer of deception to keep you from the truth by thinking you have esoteric knowledge. Christ Himself establish the Sacraments as a means of grace, they are Divinely instituted to deliver His promises in a tangible way and provide the believer with comfort and assurance.
He was before the resurrection. He was still under the old covenant. The New Testament Grace dispensation did not start until after He arose and ascended up in to Heaven. Jesus healed the man with the withered hand, and then told him that his sins were forgiven him. Jesus, who is God, robed in flesh, told the thief that he would be with Him that day. He did it for Enoch, he did it for Elijah, so I assume he could do it for a man that asked personally for forgiveness at that time. All power and all authority are in Jesus. Anyone, after the resurrection and return of Jesus Christ as the comforter, are under the new covenant, beginning at Act chapter 2.