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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: crusher Ordered by Verse |
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1 | Saved by belief or belief and baptism? | NT general Archive 1 | crusher | 166800 | ||
If you will read Acts 9, 22, and 26 you will get the full picture of what happened with Saul and Ananias. A very important verse relevant to the proper understanding of this verse is Acts 9:17. This verse tells us why the Lord Jesus sent Ananias to Saul (Paul)! Ananias said “…Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.” Therefore, the twofold purpose the Lord sent Ananias to Saul for was 1) So he would receive his physical eye sight and 2) Get filled with the Holy Ghost. The point is: Jesus never sent Ananias to His ‘chosen vessel’ to get him saved! He was already saved! If Saul still needed to get saved when Jesus was informing Ananias what to do, He certainly would have known it and would have put that on the top of Ananias’ list! However, Jesus never even indirectly mentioned such as He sent Ananias forth! Also, when one is sent to another to get him filled with the Holy Ghost, as Ananias was sent, the person to be filled is always a Christian already (Acts 8:14-17). These verses clearly tell us that the Apostles in Jerusalem sent Peter and John to those in Samaria, who were already saved, so they might receive the Holy Ghost! Last point here is that Paul said this about the Gospel, “for I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ” in Galatians 1:12. If Paul learned the Gospel or the plan of salvation from Ananias, which would have to be the case if Acts 22:16 means water baptism washes away our sins, then Paul could have never made that statement!!! | ||||||
2 | Explanations of difficult verses | NT general Archive 1 | crusher | 166803 | ||
If your comments represent the only truth then anyone in history who was baptized by any other means other than emersion was not really baptized. I believe the verses you are referring to (Romans 6:4 and Colossians 2:12) do not have anything to do with water. It is buried unto “death” and not into water. In the verse from Colossians we see that the soul is raised through “the operation of God”. It is not that our bodies are raised out of the water by the physical strength of man. These passages signify the deepest work of grace---separation from sin and made alive to God. They are figurative and no more literal as to being put under water than the passages of scripture such as ‘crucified with Christ’ mean we are to be nailed to a literal cross of wood or that ‘resurrection’ and ‘raised up from the dead’ in Romans 6:4-5 mean a literal resurrection of the body. Paul says, “We are buried with Christ,” not that we were buried in water. To really represent His burial the body of the baptized candidate would have to be left under the water three days and three nights. Another thing was that Jesus’ body was exposed in the tomb and not covered up although the tomb was sealed Jesus was not covered up. There is a lot of difference in being buried with Christ by baptism into death and buried under water by a preacher. The baptism Paul is speaking of here is the same as that spoken of in Luke 12:50, which is the baptism of suffering and death. I hope this helps. | ||||||