Subject: disciplerami, support forgiveness last. |
Bible Note: Dear Searcher, Nothing in the A.T. Robertson quote contradicts what I believe. Second, let me see if I understand Wallace correctly. Here is your "quote" of Wallace: "To begin, let us briefly recall that the original Greek for the cited passage is 'metanoesate kai baptistheto hekastos hymon'. Here, an aorist active imperative (second person plural) verb states a condition (protasis) upon which the fulfillment (apodosis) of another verb in the aorist imperative (third person singular) depends, and hence the mood and person establishes the force of that second verb as "each one of you must be baptized"." He's saying, 'repentance' is a condition upon which baptism depends, hence the grammar dictates that "each one of you must be baptized." Hmm, sounds like Wallace agrees with me. Attention everyone: The following poll is being taken for the benefit of Searcher56 so that he no longer misunderstand our position. Go ahead and raise your hand if you think baptism can be received without repentance. Hold on a minute....taking the count....no hands raised so far...still waiting....ok, poll is over. The # of people who believe that baptism doesn't first depend on repentance is 0 [zero]. Therefore, it appears that everyone agrees that repentance comes first. That seems to be the point of Robertson and Wallace. Do you have anything else? What was your point in quoting these two? Thanks and may God bless you as your search for truth. Disciplerami |