Why Acts 2:38?

[Jermyn Davidson]

The more I think about this subject and subjects related to it, the more I relaize that "the split" was necessary.

Maybe the merger was never even a good idea to start.



Yes, faith without works is dead. Yes, since we believe in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we are to OBEY THE BIBLICAL COMMANDS of repentance and water baptism.


The infilling of the Holy Ghost, "evidenced" by speaking in tongues is NOT something we can do, not something we can manufacture.

It is a PROMISE from our Father and we are solely dependent on Him for the fulfillment of His Promise to us.


So when we make speaking in tongues a requirement, something that we must do, we change the spirit of the Gospel all together.

The Holy Ghost is a PROMISE, not a command.


If speaking in tongues was absolutely necessary for salvation, explain away the Ethiopian, the jailer and the book of Romans!


If speaking in tongues is necessary for salvation, so is walking on scorpions and every other sign that Jesus said would follow them that believe. You can't have one without all the others-- the language of the scripture does not allow one to single out tongues only for signs of salvation, if you want to to take the words of Jesus Christ out of context and demand tongue-talking to confirm someone's salvation.