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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: Tim, you and a handful of my other forum buddies continue to be sharper than razor soup on Scripture! (I thought this 'razor soup' description would carry a lot of weight coming from an Arkansas Razorback. I know you are deeply impressed :-) ) .... Well, on the baptismal 'formula,' I've witnessed scores of baptisms in my day and always the minister has said 'in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.' Somehow I've always felt comfortable with this 'formula.' Still and all, I think that it is the spirit, not the words themselves, in which any of Jesus' commandments is carried out that is the more important consideration. I think it moot to opine, as some tend to do, on what exactly the Apostles may have said (if anything) before or after carrying out Christ's commandment to be baptized. Some may have simply baptized without verbal accompaniment, with the tacit understanding that the ordinance was being carried out in obedience to their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Again, I have no problem at all with the 'foruma.' But I am saying that the act of obedience itself, i.e., baptism, and the spirit in which it is obeyed, takes precedence over the formulaic announcement of it. --Hank |