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Originally Posted by Godsdrummer
That is why Peter liken baptism to our response of a clear conscience, not in order to wash our sins a way. 1 Peter 2. |
Acts 22:16
And now, why tarriest thou? Arise, and
be baptised, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
Baptism, washing our sins away, and calling on the name of the Lord are inseparable in the thinking of the apostolic church in the Bible. They go together. The apostles and the early church did not separate them the way so many people do today.
Ananias believed certain things, and they determined how he spoke. The things he believed led him to say things like 'be baptised and wash away your sins'. Everyone's beliefs manifest in how they speak. 'Out of the heart the mouth speaketh.' So one's beliefs can be seen by how one expresses them. You say baptism is 'not to wash our sins away'. Ananias said 'be baptised and wash your sins away'. It is therefore obvious your belief in regards to the subject is different from that held by Ananias and the early church.
Now, if anyone in this world had the truth, it would be the early church. If anyone had the correct doctrine concerning baptism, it would be them. If anyone understood the truth about baptism and sins and washing away of sins, it would be them. So if we today have a different view than they did, it follows we do not have the truth, do not have the correct doctrine, and do not understand the truth. Otherwise, if we did, we would express it the way they did.
If one person believes X, and it leads them to say 'be baptised and wash away your sins', and another person believes Y, and it leads them to say 'baptism is not for washing away sins', then it is obvious without any possibility of refutation that Y and X are contraries. Which means the person who believes Y believes contrary to the person who believes X.
People often say 'baptism doesn't save us.' Yet Peter said 'baptism saves us'. Two opposite and mutually exclusive, mutually contradictory statements. Indicating two opposite and contradictory doctrines and beliefs.
So which is correct? Which one has the truth?
I submit the apostles and the early church had the truth. And anything contrary to their doctrine and belief is contrary to the truth, and therefore would be false.
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