Alexander Campbell is well known as being the "ringleader" of the sect known as "Campbellites," or "Restorationists," or "Disciples," and the denomination calling itself "Church of Christ," or "Christian Church." He is supposedly the one who, with others, "restored" the ancient "lost" gospel. He supposedly did this when he discovered that immersion in water was a requirement for new birth and eternal salvation. He came to believe that one was not "born again" until he was immersed in water "in order to the remission of sins."
What is ironic and interesting about Campbell, however, is the fact that he himself never was baptized according to this rediscovered "formula"! He never was baptized "in order to the remission of sins," never repudiating his former Baptist baptism.
Can you imagine it? Campbell, the head of the new denomination, was never baptized "in order to the remission of sins," and was, therefore, eternally lost!
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