Please let us experience Ash Wednesday, Lent, Holy Week, the Triduum and Easter before we get to Pentecost.
Read the account in Acts.......3000 were converted that day — they had not been believers.
Ash Wednesday, etc, - they can all be discussed at any time. Any time is a good time to discuss the Word of God.
Secondly, I am speaking of Acts chapter 2:4 (what is recorded in Acts - that Jesus spake before Acts 2:4), and the events that occured before the Apostle Peter preached and 3000 were converted.
Again, were Peter and those who had assemebled together - were they saved before the Day of Pentecost? Were they already believers before they spake with other tongues, or did they all get saved (and thus form the body of Christ) 5 hours, 5 minutes or even 5 seconds before they spake with tongues?
Ash Wednesday, etc, - they can all be discussed at any time. Any time is a good time to discuss the Word of God.
Secondly, I am speaking of Acts chapter 2:4 (what is recorded in Acts - that Jesus spake before Acts 2:4), and the events that occured before the Apostle Peter preached and 3000 were converted.
Again, were Peter and those who had assemebled together - were they saved before the Day of Pentecost? Were they already believers before they spake with other tongues, or did they all get saved (and thus form the body of Christ) 5 hours, 5 minutes or even 5 seconds before they spake with tongues?
IIRC, it was a smaller number who were anointed with the Holy Spirit that day -- they then went and saved/converted the thousands thereafter. I would strongly argue that the original group were already saved, having been Christ's apostles and those they added to their number prior to Pentecost.