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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: Dear Joe, I have not said that baptism is a literal death, burial and resurrection: which if you follow your line of questioning implies. But God decided that at baptism we are united with Christ, buried with Christ (Romans 6:3-5; Colossians 2:12). That's not my opinion, that's what Paul says. The emblems of the Lord's Supper are symbols of something else. They are not the literal body and blood of Christ. But their is a difference between the Lord's Supper and the Baptism. Baptism is done only once and it is done for a specified reason: to wash away sins. The Lord's Supper is a memorial, a proclamation of the Lord's death until He returns. There is not specified 'forgiveness' attached to partaking of it (John 6, in my opinion isn't talking about the Lord's Supper). The purpose of the two are different. Good day Joe, Disciplerami |