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Originally Posted by Aquila
All Ananias told Paul to do was to arise and be baptized washing away his sins, calling on the name of the Lord. Nothing more... nothing less. Obviously Paul studied the subject later and came to greater and greater understanding. However, initially that's all he was told.
Why not just tell someone who has repented, "Now you need to call on the name of the Lord in water baptism and have your sins washed away. Then you will be filled with the Holy Ghost."?
That should do it. They can grow into the deeper understandings of baptism as they develop in Christ Jesus.
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Then I suppose not everyone think they two criteria I mentioned above are important.
In which case I wonder why new converts aren't baptized they same day they repent. This is not generally the practice from my experience.