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NASB | Acts 22:16 'Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.' |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 22:16 'Now, why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins by calling on His name [for salvation].' |
Subject: Paul is commanded to wash away sins? |
Bible Note: You are posting answers to your own questions, now? :) Baptism is indeed CONNECTED to washing away of sins. Baptism is not the same thing as having one's sins washed away. Let me ask you a question in return. Let's take the other ordinance established by Jesus for His church: the Lord's Supper. When Jesus says that the bread and the cup ARE His body and blood, does that make us cannibals every time we come to His table? If you take the act of baptism as the literal act of having one's sins washed away, it seems that it would be logical for you to conclude that the partaking of Communion is literally eating Jesus Christ. If you do not hold that to be true, please explain why the language surrounding the Lord's Supper is figurative or sacramental but the language surrounding baptism is not. Thanks! --Joe! |