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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: Pre-Forum thinking? |
Bible Note: Hi Buf, I'm sorry if I misjudged you and maybe I can get to know you better. Please notice the "If" of my posting earlier also. The verse you have in mind here in Matthew 28 has Jesus certainly speaking for Himself as God. The people had just worshipped Him and there is only one God to be worshipped, even as you have said perhaps in former postings. At least you've said that there are not three Gods. I am a person who is obsessed with capitalization as some may think (or know). So my "if" of the last posting was a concern that I have that people know Jesus as Lord. That's His name. He wasn't a lord, or just a man. Jesus in my mind was not a man but a Man. He is God and not a god. That was what I wanted to express and make clear for your thinking as well. You have expressed that you do not believe in three Gods (and I do not either), and infer I believe a definite leaning away from the Trinity. I think you have stated that you believe that Jesus and the Father are one. Which One is to be worshipped then? The Lord Jesus or the Lord God who was not known by His name "Lord"? You may be leaning toward thinking of them both as Spirit. I wouldn't find fault with that. I think you have written that the Jesus' flesh was under control of the spirit. I would have chosen a capital S but that's all right. Let me know more of your thoughts so we can study together perhaps. Whatever, Later, Ray |