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Originally Posted by Brother Strange
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. |
I agree with you Bro. Strange. The Bible is very clear that the gospel is the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ (1Cor.15:3-5). Peter had no reason to even say what is recorded in
Acts 2:38, except that in verse 37 the crowd was "cut to the heart" and asked, "What shall we do?". What convicted them? The preaching of the gospel!
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