When Do You Know Someone Is Ready to Be Baptized?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
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🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Episode 1116 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.
Questions in this Episode
1. Am I sinning by filing for divorce from an abusive husband?
2. Does Hebrews 6:5 mean that we can lose our salvation?
3. My young daughter has not been baptized, but we believe she has a credible profession of faith. She has expressed a desire to be baptized, so what is the purpose of baptism and how is a person different before or after they are baptized?
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| 0:00.0 | When do you know if someone is ready to be baptized? |
| 0:09.1 | That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. |
| 0:13.9 | Well, hi, this is Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program |
| 0:18.1 | where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day. |
| 0:22.6 | You can call us right now with your question. Here's our phone number. It's 833-843-243-2673. That's 833. If you get our voicemail system, feel free to leave a voicemail. We do our best to review those each day. You can also email us your question. |
| 0:38.5 | Here's our email address. |
| 0:42.2 | It's Questions at CoreChristianity.com. |
| 0:45.8 | First up today, let's go to LaVan, calling in from Iowa. |
| 0:47.8 | LeVan, what's your question for Adrile? |
| 0:49.1 | Yes. |
| 0:50.6 | Thank you for taking my call. |
| 0:58.8 | I have a question I recently filed for divorce and was living with an abusive husband. So I was wondering, I did hear from well-meaning friends that I am breaking the |
| 1:09.5 | covenant marriage. |
| 1:18.3 | And I did, they said, one person breaks the covenant, the other one should stay in the marriage. |
| 1:20.5 | Just wondering what your thoughts are on that. |
| 1:21.6 | Thank you. |
| 1:47.0 | Levan, um, these questions are so important and so with regard to questions pertaining to divorce, marriage, I tread carefully because I know how complex these situations are. Now let me just say in situations of abuse, you know, there are different types of abuse, but in situations of abuse where an individual is |
| 1:55.4 | abusing their spouse, I would never tell a woman to be in an unsafe situation. |
| 2:03.6 | I mean, in situations like that, the right thing, depending on the kind of abuse, I mean, |
| 2:08.6 | sometimes you immediately contact the authorities, you need to get to a place where you're safe. |
| 2:14.6 | There's just all sorts of steps there. And I don't want to, I don't want to dig into that specifically, but I just want to begin by saying that in scripture, Jesus gives in Matthew chapter 19 infidelity or adultery as a legitimate grounds for divorce. Paul in 1 Corinthians chapter 7 seems to suggest |
| 2:38.9 | abandonment as well. I mean, he does. The abandonment of a spouse is another legitimate |
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