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Originally Posted by Originalist
Who is denying this? That is without question. But the fact that God filled Cornelius with the Spirit before he was baptized blows away the idea that "the blood is applied at baptism". The blood was applied when "Christ entered in for us" according to the book of Hebrew. We simply embrace that work by faith through repentance/water baptism. But it is obvious here that God bent his own order out of necessity, to prove that he had shed his blood for Gentiles as well. In other words, God "saved" Cornelius before water baptism. This is a case of God "calling those things that are not as if though they were". Cornelius would not have gone to hell if he had dropped dead just before he reached the water. But again, this was the exception and not the rule. We have no right to pray for people to receive the Holy Ghost until they are baptized and the story of Cornelius is not a license to do so.
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Question?
Act 2:42 And they
continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
What would have happened had they NOT "
continued" stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
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