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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].' |
Bible Question:
Why is the first imperative, "be baptized," followed by a second, "wash away your sins," if baptism hasn't a thing to do with the removal of sins? Why does Saul still need to have his sins washed away? Is baptism connected to washing away of sins? Many who post on this forum say they are connected symbolically: but they only allow that baptism is done later to symbolize an earlier spiritual cleansing. But I wonder if they can explain why Ananias commands that Saul both, "be baptized" and "wash away thy sins"? Help me to understand this verse. |
Bible Answer: disciplerami, My stand on this topic will be baptism of the water is a contributor to our salvation, we have to do our part, when Christ do his part by giving us we have to do our part in response to His calling. Php 2:12 ¶ Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. I do believed that even ten hundred times we are going to baptize we are not save if we have no faith, I do believed that it is not the water who saves us but Christ. But if you ask me did a water baptism important, Yes! God commanded that, it is a contributor to our salvation. Christ do it Himself as an example. As He said if we love Him we keep His commandments, and baptism are one of those: Joh 14:15 ¶ If ye love me, keep my commandments. God bless, |