Many have added to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Some have added baptism to His all-sufficient gospel. That is, baptismal regeneration is suppose to remove original sin. Here a reference from the Roman Catechism:
1263 By Baptism all sins are
forgiven, original sin and all personal sins, as well as all punishment
for sin. In those who have been reborn nothing remains that would impede
their entry into the Kingdom of God, neither Adam's sin, nor personal
sin, nor the consequences of sin, the gravest of which is separation
from God.
The Bible does not teach that baptism can remit sin. Rather the Bible teaches that the Cross of Jesus Christ takes away all original sin and actual transgressions. It is a spiritually and theological bankruptcy to doctrinally hold an
addition to the gospel of the Cross of the Lamb of God. We ought to never add to the Cross through our baptism. To say that baptism "saves" is contrary to the gospel. The only thing that saves is the life and death of Christ alone imputed to a regenerated sinner through faith alone! Baptism cannot regenerate a soul, because it is meant to be a picture of how we are saved through the burial and resurrection of our only divine Redeemer. The real Jesus does not need the man-centered addition of baptism to enter the gates of heaven. The real Jesus does not need Mary as an extra-biblical addition to the appeasement of God. The real Jesus does not have Mary intercede for God's people, because He is forgiving as our ultimate lover of our souls. See what false religion says about Mary, a slave of God:
969 "This motherhood of Mary in the order of
grace continues uninterruptedly from the consent which she loyally gave
at the Annunciation and which she sustained without wavering beneath the
cross, until the eternal fulfillment of all the elect. Taken up to
heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold
intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation. . . .
Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles
of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix."
The Bible says in Galatians chapter 2:16-21 on the
all-sufficiency and exclusivity of Jesus:
Knowing
that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith
of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be
justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for
by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. But
if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are
found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I
am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ
liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the
faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. (KJV).
