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Originally Posted by NightSpirit  I'm trying to understand why you said this, because it's wrong. I hope you don't believe it. This is from Mark 16 Jesus to His disciples.
"Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." |
By believeth he was talking about believing the message. Not believing "in Jesus".
By damned he meant that the person would suffer in a Hell on Earth of their own making. Not be sent there by God for eternity.
The idea of Jesus being the "only" son of God and that we must be baptized in water in order to have eternal life is from John. John is widely agreed to have been heavily "spun" in comparison to Mark.
We are all children of God on equal footing with Jesus, we just have not awoken to that reality.
Mark supports this statement. John does not. Mark is considered to be closer to the source, while John is obviously heavily influenced by someone with doctrinal education and an agenda.