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NASB | Acts 2:38 Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 2:38 And Peter said to them, "Repent [change your old way of thinking, turn from your sinful ways, accept and follow Jesus as the Messiah] and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ because of the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. |
Subject: Baptism, Trinity, and Teachers? |
Bible Note: Hello anybody following Baptism, Trinity and Teachers, Jim, let me pick on your choice of words just in order to make a point. You spoke of the way to "get the job done". This reminded me of the fact that baptism isn't a work that I have to have accomplished. It isn't a work that a preacher can do even "in Jesus' name". I've considered immersion because of a TV preacher, Charles Stanley, and because my wife found it meaningful years ago, and I know the symbolism of it all is great, and it is a good tradition and opportunity of profession of faith on a person's part. Jim, when I was looking at your Ephesians reference I read chapter 2:1, "And your were dead in your trespasses and sins...v.4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),...not as a result of works, so that no one may boast." So even without the washing away of our sins symbolically by baptism we are saved by God's love. This may still be a "good work" that I could do, but I haven't decided if it's something I should do. It is something that I would have done. See Ephesians 2:10 Ephesians 4:4 says,"There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all." So if I have a choice of baptisms, I would choose the one Spirit's, if you please. Later, Ray P.S. Please consider answering a question I will be posting. Sorry, it will be about capitalization of a verse. |