Basic Questions and Brief and Simple Answers to the Same

1 00. Basic Questions and Brief and Simple Answers to the Same. 2 Question 01: Do you maintain that for over one thousand years there has been no true and genuine ... 3 Question 02: Could the church of God have existed at any time and in any manner even with but few... 4 Question 03: Did, then, the church of God here on earth completely cease to exist during the time... 5 Question 04: How would you reconcile this with the promise of Jesus (Matthew 16:18) that the gate... 6 Question 05: What, then, do you think about the salvation of those undeniable witnesses of truth ... 7 Question 06: Are you not of the opinion that the baptismal ceremony which has so long been neglec... 8 Question 07: Are you not compelled to recognize and admit that in that particular case [baptism] ... 9 Question 08: Can any one of you stand up who is willing to state, upon his conscience and respons... 10 Question 09: Of what does this direct calling consist? How can you justify and present this to th... 11 Question 10: May it not properly be expected after the truth that if this work were indeed from G... 12 Question 11: Is water baptism so absolutely necessary that positively no one can be saved without... 13 Question 12: Does not the principal passage of Mark 16:16 prove the very contrary, where Jesus pr... 14 Question 13: If water baptism is so absolutely necessary, why did Christ not mention it in His Se... 15 Question 14: How can you prove that John the Baptist was himself baptized, for he said to Christ ... 16 Question 15: Were, then, all those who lived and died after the time of the early Christians who ... 17 Question 16: Does not the commandment of baptism apply also to children, as did the commandment o... 18 Question 17: Were children damned in the Old Covenant who died without having received circumcisi... 19 Question 18: At what age then are the children to be baptized? Is it not proper to use all dilige... 20 Question 19: Are not the children as capable of being baptized as of having faith (according to L... 21 Question 20: Does it not run counter to the evangelical character of the New Covenant to make an ... 22 Question 21: If baptism is made an absolutely necessary commandment for salvation, will this not ... 23 Question 22: Can the outward ban be an essential part of the church of Christ, when Christ himsel... 24 Question 23: Is not the binding and loosing of the apostles a prerogative granted only to them, w... 25 Question 24: Did Christ institute a universal law for the church of the New Testament with the wo... 26 Question 25: Did the apostles ever forbid administering the necessary spiritual or physical servi... 27 Question 26: Have you, the New Baptists, ever had the same divine effect and result with some of ... 28 Question 27: Is the true spiritual rebirth inseparable from water baptism? 29 Question 28: Are all of those whom you baptize immediately reborn of God in truth? 30 Question 29: Could not a person be truly reborn even before he is baptized, since water baptism -... 31 Question 30: Is not the true brotherhood of Christians founded much rather upon rebirth than upon... 32 Question 31: Are not those who have proved their rebirth by their lives before God and man to be ... 33 Question 32: Can you testify before the countenance of Jesus Christ, the omniscient Searcher of h... 34 Question 33: Do you not regard your church as superior to those of all other Baptist-minded [Tauf... 35 Question 34: What are your reasons for considering your newly established church, the practices o... 36 Question 35: Can and dare your teachers and elders bring the testimonies of their consciences bef... 37 Question 36: Must they not admit before God in their souls that many among them were much more lo... 38 Question 37: Is it not true that you began your new baptism with much uncertainty and wavering an... 39 Question 38: On which point, then, can the undoubted divinity of your new church be recognized be... 40 Question 39: Are you yourselves assured, and have you already received the eternal assurance in t... 41 Question 40: Do you expect a better outcome for your church than that of the former Anabaptists? ...