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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. |
The Acts of the Apostles gives us an historical narrative of the first 30 years or so of the Church. In biblical hermeneutics there is a rule called
the priority of didactic, and this very important rule states: All historical narratives are to be interpreted by the didactic."
The didactic is the teaching portions of Scripture. Biblical doctrine should not be formed from the historical narrative. For the most part, OP gather most or all of their "in the name of" doctrine from Acts, the historical narrative.