A Confusing Message of Salvation?

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Chateau d'If

Please explain this exchange...



Why, oh why, oh why didn't Paul preach tell them the same thing that Peter had in Acts 2:38?

After all, they weren't in the upper room, they had never heard "the message," and didn't know anything about salvation.

Yet Paul, for some unknown reason, says "believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved."

Two things.

1. Was the man asking what to do to be saved from the earthquake, and the loss of prisoners, or was he asking how to be saved from Hell?

2. If he was asking how to be saved from Hell, we have a real problem, because Paul did not preach baptism or Holy Ghost to him.

We don't know what Paul taught them other than the need to believe On Jesus, since Luke adds that they spoke on to them the word of the Lord but did not give detials

How is that an unknown reason? Aren't you being a bit melodramatic here?

BTW it's always good to get the context.

Act 16:24 Having received this order, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
Act 16:25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,
Act 16:26 and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were unfastened.
Act 16:27 When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
Act 16:28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, "Do not harm yourself, for we are all here."
Act 16:29 And the jailer called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas.
Act 16:30 Then he brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
Act 16:31 And they said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household."
Act 16:32 And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house.
Act 16:33 And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.

The earth quake was probably already over. The jailer already knew who these men where and their faith in the savior. He was freaking out because of the earth quake and the fact that the jails were open. Why would he be asking them to save him from the earthquake? That makes no sense