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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: Decisional regeneration? |
Bible Note: Hi Tim, I’ve talked to people who said they were saved because they went forward in a Billy Graham crusade. Some assume they are saved just because they’ve jump through someone’s psychological hoop; walking an aisle raising a hand etc. I like the eunuch’s answer to Philip. Acts 8:37 (B) And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Peter had the right answer as well. Matthew 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. John 20: 31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. The key to eternal life, is believing in the Jesus the Son of God, just as the Bible says but the problem, as I see it, is in the word believe. People don’t fully understand what it means to believe in Jesus Christ because the word believe, in the English, doesn’t convey what the word in the Koine Greek meant, as you well know. CDBJ |