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Catholics (like many Protestants) believe in baptismal regeneration, and we also believe that the Eucharist has a direct relation to salvation in some respect, based on passages such as the following:<\/p>\n
Acts 2:38<\/span><\/b>\u00a0And Peter said to them, \u201cRepent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the\u00a0forgiveness<\/b>\u00a0of your sins;<\/p>\n1 Peter 3:18-21<\/span><\/b>\u00a0For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit; in which he went and preached to the spirits in prison, who formerly did not obey, when God\u2019s patience waited in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were\u00a0saved through water<\/b>.\u00a0Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you<\/b>, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,<\/p>\nActs 22:16<\/span><\/b>\u00a0And now why do you wait? Rise and\u00a0be baptized, and wash away your sins<\/b>, calling on his name.\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nRomans 6:3-4<\/b><\/span>\u00a0Or don\u2019t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore\u00a0buried with him through baptism<\/b>\u00a0into death in order that, just as Christ was\u00a0raised from the dead<\/b>\u00a0through the glory of the Father, we too may\u00a0live a new life<\/b>. (cf. Romans 8:11, 1 Cor 15:20-23, Col 2:11-13)<\/span><\/p>\n1\u00a0<\/b>Corinthians 6:11<\/b><\/span>\u00a0And such were some of you. But you were\u00a0washed<\/b>, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.<\/span><\/p>\nMark 16:16<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>He who\u00a0believes and is baptized will be saved<\/b>; but he who does not believe will be condemned.<\/p>\nPaul seems to imply an organic connection between baptism (washed), sanctification and justification.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nTitus 3:5<\/span><\/b>\u00a0he\u00a0saved<\/b>\u00a0us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness, but in virtue of his own mercy, by the\u00a0washing of regeneration<\/b>\u00a0and renewal in the Holy Spirit,<\/p>\nCompare this to\u00a0<\/span>John 3:5<\/span><\/b>:<\/span><\/p>\nJesus answered, \u201cI tell you the truth, unless a man is born of<\/span>\u00a0water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. (cf. 3:3: \u201cunless a man is born again \u2026\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\nThe two passages are almost exactly parallel:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nTitus<\/span>: \u201csaved\u201d \/\u00a0John<\/span>: \u201center the kingdom of God\u201d<\/p>\nTitus<\/span>: \u201cwashing of rebirth\u201d \/\u00a0John<\/span>: \u201cborn of water\u201d<\/p>\nTitus<\/span>: \u201crenewal by the Holy Spirit\u201d \/\u00a0John<\/span>: \u201cborn . . . of the Spirit\u201d<\/p>\n* * *<\/div>\n
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The connection between the Eucharist and eternal life is equally clear, I think:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nJohn 6:48-51<\/span><\/b>\u00a0I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that\u00a0a man may eat of it and not die<\/b>. I am the living bread which came down from heaven;\u00a0if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever<\/b>; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.\u201d<\/p>\nJohn 6:53-58<\/span><\/b>\u00a0So Jesus said to them, \u201cTruly, truly, I say to you,\u00a0unless you eat the flesh<\/b>\u00a0of the Son of man\u00a0and drink his blood, you have no life in you<\/b>; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood\u00a0has eternal life<\/b>, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood\u00a0abides in me<\/b>, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so\u00a0he who eats me will live because of me<\/b>. This is the bread which came down from heaven, not such as the fathers ate and died;\u00a0he who eats this bread will live for ever<\/b>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nSome questions have arisen from Protestants as to the relationship of these eucharistic passages to other criteria for salvation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[CC0 public domain \/ Pixabay] *** (5-28-08) *** Catholics (like many Protestants) believe in baptismal regeneration, and we also believe that the Eucharist has a direct relation to salvation in some respect, based on passages such as the following: Acts 2:38\u00a0And Peter said to them, \u201cRepent, and be baptized every one of you in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2331,"featured_media":6737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[314,58],"tags":[1461,1463,1462,1464],"class_list":["post-4579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baptism-and-sacramentalism","category-eucharist-liturgy","tag-baptismal-regeneration","tag-eucharistic-theology","tag-salvation-by-baptism","tag-salvation-through-the-eucharist"],"yoast_head":"\n
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