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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: Jesus' name baptism? |
Bible Note: Greetings Savannah, "Does the fact that God is not a God of confusion (1 Cor. 14:33) prove that the doctrine of the Trinity cannot be true, since this doctrine is hard to understand? This is an absurd suggestion. Simply because one is unable to fully comprehend a doctrine does not mean the doctrine is false. For human beings to be able to understand everything about God, they would need to have the very mind of God. Scripture affirms: "Oh, the depths of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!" (Romans 11:33 NASB). "'For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,' declares the LORD. 'For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts'" (Isaiah 55:8,9 NASB). "For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully just as I also have been fully known" (1 Cor. 13:12 NASB) Such verses make it clear that human reasoning has limitations. Finite minds cannot possibly understand everything there is to know about an infinite being. Creatures cannot know everything there is to know about the sovereign Creator. Just as a young child cannot understand everything his father says, so we as God's children cannot understand everything about our heavenly Father. What, then, did the apostle Paul mean when he said, "God is not a God of confusion but of peace"? Consulting the context of 1 Corinthians makes everything clear. The Corinthian church was plagued by internal divisions and disorder, especially in regard to the exercise of spiritual gifts (1 Cor. 1:11). Since God is a God of peace and not a God of confusion, Paul says, the church itself must seek to model itself after God by seeking peace and avoiding disharmony in its services. By so doing, the church honors God." (1) Therefore, a person cannot argue against the truth of the doctrine of the Trinity by saying that it is "confusing." Blessings to you, Makarios Source: (1) The Complete Book of Bible Answers, 1997, Harvest House Publishers, pgs. 60-61, Author: Ron Rhodes, the President of Reasoning from the Scriptures Ministries |