Is this teaching biblical?
Wagner Ribeiro asks 'Where did we get the idea that you need to be baptized to take communion?' and claims baptism is merely 'sequential.' The answer is: from Scripture and the unanimous practice of the church since the apostles. The Didache (c. 100 AD) explicitly forbids unbaptized persons from the Eucharist. Acts 2 shows the pattern: repentance, baptism, THEN fellowship and breaking of bread. Ribeiro tears down 2,000 years of church order to promote his own innovations.
What did Wagner Ribeiro say?
"De onde a gente tirou a ideia de que precisa batizar para ceiar? ... O batismo é sequencial, isso é bíblico."
English Translation"Where did we get the idea that you need to be baptized to take communion? ... Baptism is sequential, this is biblical."
Speaker: Wagner Ribeiro
Source: Fala Fariseu video, February 2025
What does Scripture actually teach?
Acts 2:38-42
"Then Peter said to them, 'Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.'... Then those who gladly received his word were baptized... And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers."
— NKJV
The apostolic pattern is clear: (1) Repent, (2) Be baptized, (3) THEN fellowship and breaking of bread. The 3,000 were baptized BEFORE they participated in the breaking of bread. This is not arbitrary — it is the order established by the apostles themselves.
Matthew 28:19-20
"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you."
— NKJV
Jesus commands: make disciples, BAPTIZE them, then teach them to observe His commands (which include communion). The Great Commission establishes baptism as the entry rite into the community that observes Christ's commands. Ribeiro inverts this order.
1 Corinthians 11:27-29
"Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body."
— NKJV
Paul warns about taking communion 'unworthily.' The unbaptized have not publicly identified with Christ's death and resurrection through baptism — they have not 'put on Christ' (Galatians 3:27). The church has always recognized baptism as the prerequisite for worthy communion participation.
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