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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: To be saved must we be baptised? |
Bible Note: Greetings Disciplerami! The point made is quite valid. To phrase it differently, if you are correct in your interpretation then the thief on the cross was saved by simply believing, but we must believe and do some work as well. Why would God have two different methods of salvation? My position is that there has always been only one means of salvation - faith. The old testament saints were saved, not because of their obedience to the Law (see Paul), but because of their faith in what Christ would do in the future. We are saved, not because of our obedience to some new law, but because of faith in what Christ has done. Both are saved in the same way. Where is the "Good News" if those before Christ's death could get in by faith alone, but we have to jump through hoops to get the same gift (or wage) now that Christ has died? Every single arugment you make for 'baptism' being necessary for salvation, the Judaizers made for 'circumsicion' being necessary for salvation. Both views are wrong for the same reason: Titus 3:5 - "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," Eph. 2:9 - "not by works, so that no one can boast." Rom. 4:23 - "The words ??it was credited to him? were written not for him alone, 24 but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness?for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead." Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |