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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: This is the second time in the last few days that I have seen the word 'moot'. Both times times it was used as an adjective describing an issue. Not being so smart, I looked up the definition of 'moot' in my Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition. As an adjective it means 1. subject to or open for discussion or debate; debatable 2. so hypothetical as to be meaningless. I gather from the context of your post that you mean water baptism is so hypothetical as to be meaningless, and you say this after just proving that water baptism in the Biblical pattern is connected to the moment at which we believe the gospel. 2 Thess 1:8 dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 1 Cor 15:1 Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, 1 Cor 15:2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. 1 Cor 15:3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 1 Cor 15:4 and that He was BURIED, and that He was RAISED on the third day according to the Scriptures, Col 2:12 having been BURIED with Him in baptism, in which you were also RAISED up with Him through FAITH in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. another interesting comparison: Col 2:11 and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ; 1 Pet 3:21 Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you--not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience--through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, God bless |