**And when Paul had met with Apollos’ disciples, he was not satisfied with water baptism and taught them to be baptized into the name of Jesus Christ!**
Paul not only ‘taught them to be baptized into the name of Jesus Christ’, they then “were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus”. After which, when Paul laid his hands on them, they received the Holy Ghost baptism.
**Hebrews 9:10 -“Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.” Here, we see stated the old rituals done away with at the reform “Day of pentecost/administration of grace” which began in Acts 1.**
In Heb. 6:1-3, the writer is not discontinuing the ‘doctrine of Christ’, which included repentance from dead works, faith toward God, the doctrine of baptisms(plural), laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgement. For he says: “And this we will do, if God permit”.
You see, the epistles were written to those already born again, already sanctified (saints). That includes Romans, which people incorrectly use as evangelistic teaching (bypassing all or much of Acts), instead of as it really is: instruction and edification to the saints.
Remember my pointing out how Paul said to the Corinthians (some of which were of Gentile ethnicity) “ALL our fathers were under the cloud, and ALL passed through the sea, and were ALL baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea.”
The Israelites were as good as dead without crossing the Red Sea. Could God have preserved them with just the cloud? God knows, but he wanted them to leave that world behind and begin a new life. So, he made a way of escape, and it was ‘though the sea’. They then continued on with the cloud leading them.
Mainline Christianity makes ‘passing through the sea’ kinda important, but not urgent, and that it certainly doesn’t save. Moses would beg to differ with you.
“Moses would beg to differ with you.”
Except we’re no longer subject to Mosaic law:
Galatians 2:16 -
“Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.”
Galations 3:13- Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Galations 3:14 - That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.