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Originally Posted by Theophilus
Surely you jest...
You sure do get it honest, Bro Strange. 
Pardon me elder, but Acts 2:38 gives us both the how and why.
It is so simple that those that received the Word (ACTS 2:38) gladly were baptized. [ SEE ACTS 2:41 ]
No bedtime stories of old for the 3000, it was their time to awake from the slumber.
God Bless, Theo. |
Surely YOU jest...
Unless you belong to some weird cult, no one is going to be baptized in any name at all just because someone tells them to be baptized in the name of Jesus without preaching the gospel to them. It is the preaching of the gospel that gives BOTH the WHY and HOW.
Acts 2:38 alone gives NEITHER the WHY or HOW.
Indeed, WHAT Word did they receive???
They got something more than just some bloke standing up and giving the
Acts 2:38 command. Anyone would be an idiot just on the basis of
Acts 2:38 alone. Why! Someone may just as well tell them to go be baptized in vinegar in the name of Jim Jones. If they are so blind to obey only a command without understanding the precedent to
Acts 2:38, a well preached gospel message by Peter, you would have to worry about a people so lame brained as that.
Peter preached JESUS to the people, giving both the HOW and WHY before giving the COMMAND found in
Acts 2:38.
I am uttlerly amazed that so many people believe that the Gospel is nothing more than
Acts 2:38. That is not simple...that's pure silliness.