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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: where does he ask that,baptized or not |
Bible Note: Dear Charis, Oneness Pentecostals have often been accused of being adherants of the "heresy of Modalism" and also attacked because they believe that baptism should be administered in the name of Jesus Christ. This mode of baptism is biblically and historically accurate. You have to really twist the scriptures hard and be into a lot of total denial to say that baptisms being described in the Bible that give any indication of the method does not include the saving name of Jesus Christ instead of the titles mode of in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. One of you in the forum tried to make out that he did not understand which Jesus I was talking about because I did not put the word "Christ" behind it in one place in one message. Please!! Do you think I am arguing a case for some Mexican dude when I speak of Jesus in a Christian forum? Two members of my local church have done a great deal of research on the historical development of the Trinitarian mode of baptism. Much of their research came from reference materials located in the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. They give some of the sources in their articles. They are too long to post here, but I invite you to visit these two links and download the articles so you can read it for yourself. They are located at: http://www.pentecostalsonline.org/one.html and http://www.pentecostalsonline.org/baptism2.html You will see after reading these articles that the modes of baptism over the centuries went from "in the name of Jesus Christ" to several variants of trinitarian baptism. It went from one full immersion in water to two dunks, to three dunks, to sprinkling, to baptizing babies, to being baptized in proxy for people who had already died, etc. In other words, after the saving name of Jesus CHRIST was removed from the baptismal formula, it has been manipulated by men into new traditions of their own invention. Today, many groups point to their "traditions of men" as being more important to follow than the codified scriptures that they confess as being the Word of God. The Catholic church has historically been very bad in this regard and resorted to persecuting those who chose to cling to the truth of the scriptures. We find this a particularly telling flaw in their thinking, because our Lord never used force at all in trying to bring man to salvation in Himself. He rebuked His disciples on more than one occasion for wanting to use force against people. He made Peter put away his sword and rebuked two others for wanting to call down fire from heaven on a village. Jesus reaches out to man in love and tells us that we will be recognized as His by our love for one another. Paganistic religions on the other hand, use violence to enforce their beliefs and will on others. As examples look at the Muslims, the Hindus, the early Catholic church with their Inquisition, the Romans, the Egyptians with their forms of emperor worship, etc. You should also know that two of the "early Apostolic Fathers" who condemned the heresy of Monarchial Modalism, Justin Maryter and Oriegen, had all of the writings they objected to burned so it is very hard today to understand exactly what that modalism really was. Several years later, both of these theologans were themselves declared heretics. I declare to you that the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the recipients speaking in tongues, and all the other Spiritual Gifts described by Paul in his epistles are being manifested in the Oneness Pentecostal Churches. Instead of sitting down with us and talking to us to find out what we really believe and teach, many who are already into their own religious denomination just want to stand back and call names. They forget .the Bible teaches that it is Jesus Christ Himself who baptizes in the Holy Ghost. Before the Holy Ghost was given to the first Gentiles, God warned Peter: Acts 10:15 "And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common." |