\u201cBaptism, is, as I like to say, the absolute divine\u00a0\u2018Yes.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems to me a horrendous mistake on the part of so-called evangelical theologians, whether they are on TV or elsewhere — (You know, all you have to do these days to be instantaneously authoritative is to show up on TV) — it always seems to me to be a drastic mistake when they begin by saying: \u2018You can\u2019t depend on your baptism\u2019 \u2013 which they do [say], of course. When you begin that way, you\u2019ve just shot yourself in the foot. There\u2019s no way out of that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s one incident from All in the Family<\/em> from some time ago \u2013 Archie Bunker and Michael were arguing about whether Michael\u2019s baby was going to be baptized. And Michael says he didn\u2019t want the baby baptized, and Archie says, \u2018Well, why not? You\u2019ve been baptized.\u2019 And Michael says: \u201cYeah, but I renounced my baptism.\u2019 And Archie says: \u2018You can\u2019t do that. You can renounce your belly button, but it won\u2019t go away.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cArchie was a pretty good theologian at that point. These signs become a part of your autobiography, like a broken leg or a scar, and can\u2019t be changed. In that sense, when we say you are marked with the cross of Christ forever,\u00a0that\u2019s the way it is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cBaptism, is, as I like to say, the absolute divine\u00a0\u2018Yes.\u2019 \u201cIt seems to me a horrendous mistake on the part of so-called evangelical theologians, whether they are on TV or elsewhere — (You know, all you have to do these days to be instantaneously authoritative is to show up on TV) — it always seems […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}