To: AndrewC
Remember that the Apostles right from Acts take the very words of Jesus Christ (above) and believed in them. They did not use human logic to deny what He said.
Paul only elaborates past the simple message of Christ.:
Acts 2:38,
38 Peter replied, Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. |
Acts 22:16;
16 And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name. |
Rom. 6:14;
1 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or dont you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. |
1 Cor 6:11,
11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God |
1 Cor 12:13;
13 For we were all baptized by[a] one Spirit so as to form one bodywhether Jews or Gentiles, slave or freeand we were all given the one Spirit to drink. |
Gal. 3:2627;
26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ |
Eph. 5:26;
to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word, |
Col. 2:1112;
11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh[a] was put off when you were circumcised by[b] Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. |
Titus 3:5;
5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, |
3,619 posted on
06/20/2011 4:46:39 AM PDT by
Cronos
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To: Cronos
Acts 22:16; 16 And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name. While all the quotations are true, you are perverting the meaning of Acts 22:16. Paul in defense was relating what Ananias told him after he had received his sight.
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