Transcript of the recorded debate in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1952 between V.E. Howard and Julian Pope, Baptist, on the necessity of baptism and possibility of apostasy.
Proposition: The Scriptures teach that baptism to the penitent believe is essential to his salvation from past and alien sins.
Howard affirmed
Pope denied
Proposition: The Scriptures teach that salvation comes at the point of faith without any further act of obedience.
Pope affirmed
Howard denied
Proposition: The Scriptures teach that a child of God can so sin as to be finally lost.
Howard affirmed
Pope denied
Proposition: The Scriptures teach that it is impossible for a child of God to so sin as to be finally lost.
Pope affirned
Howard denied
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