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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: Acts 2:38 Repentance and Baptism? |
Bible Note: Rowdy, I join Tim Moran in my appreciation of the gentle spirit that shows through in your posts. And I join Tim in my disagreement with a couple of theological conclusions to which your "better safe than sorry" motto apparently has led you. I disagree with the view that salvation is in any way contingent upon the life-long maintenance of good works, even though there is a clear relational connection between salvation and good works, i.e., "we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." (Eph. 8:10). But salvation is "the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast." (Eph. 2:8b,9) The second theological conclusion with which I disagree is baptismal regeneration, which really is a spin-off of the "maintenance of salvation by works" theology that leads to the denial of the doctrine of the eternal security of the believer. Baptismal regeneration puts works into the salvation equation and adds something to Ephesians 2:8 which says, "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God." ..... Thus, baptismal regeration and "falling from grace" are actually two peas of the same pod, in that both views add a man-generated, works-based element to God's free gift of grace, and that is not the message of the finished work of Christ on the cross. ....... The Jewish leaders of Jesus' day taught the Law, not as it was given to Moses, but as it was interpreted, refined, rehashed, added to and perverted down through the centuries. Jesus, of course, soundly condemned what was being taught. But perhaps the Jews too thought that they were merely following the maxim: Better to be safe than sorry. --Hank |