Do I have to repent to be saved or do I repent because I'm already saved?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

Well, hi, I'm Bill Meyer along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day. And we get some great questions. We'd love to hear yours. You can call us right now at 8333-3-3-2-6-73. Of course, you can always post your question at one of our social media sites,

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Questions at Core Christianity.com. Now, we do have an email to start off with today, and this one's from

Randy, and it's ties in with some questions we've received earlier on baptism. And here's

what Randy asks, Adriel, what is your position on being baptized multiple times at different

denominations of churches? Yeah, we did just get a question similar to this with a caller yesterday, I believe.

And my position would be that you can only be baptized one time.

I mean, if you've been legitimately baptized in the name of the father and of the son and of the

Holy Spirit, in an Orthodox church, a church that believes in the core doctrines of the Christian faith,

summarized in places like the Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed, then, I mean, that can only happen once.

And so we shouldn't, and I mean, this was actually something that was somewhat of a controversy, even in the early church,

this idea of going and trying to get baptized again and again and again.

You just can't do that. If baptism is rooted first and foremost in God's promise, his word,

baptism is a sign and seal of his gospel grace to his people. Well, then it's dependent upon the word of the Lord above everything else, not dependent upon the holiness of the person who's administering the baptism, your pastor, not dependent on the, you know, the amount of water that's used. Did you get sprinkled or, you know, were you just immersed in the ocean, that kind of a thing?

Baptism is a sign, a sacrament that's done with water in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

And if you've done that, if that's happened, you shouldn't try to go and get quote unquote baptized again.

It wouldn't be another.

There is no other baptism to do.

And let me just say, I think sometimes people are looking for a sort of unique

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