Bombshell- Considering going back to the UPC

[Jason B]

Originally Posted by Jason Badejo

Bro. Epley, do you know what I preached yesterday? Acts 2:23-41. The Bible isn't the problem. The answer is still the same. The command is 2-fold, repent and be baptized. The Holy Ghost is both a gift and a promise, not something to check off the list.

Most conservative Christians don't have any problems with Acts 2:37-38. The ones I've been in contact with don't even have a problem with water baptism in Jesus name. The problem is your new fangled interpretation which tries to force a square peg (tongues) into a round hole. Acts 2:41 is plain that the people who believed Peter were baptized, and thus added to the church. Your whole interpretation is flawed, but your too proud to acknowledge it after all these years.

Bro Epley, whydo you require speaking in tongues for salvation when there is no evidence (pun intended )that the 3,000 in Acts 2:41 spoke in tongues, nor the 5,000 of Acts 4:4? Or for that matter, no evidence in 18 of 21 conversion accounts in the book of Acts, and no evidence from the epistles (where tongues is mentioned in only 1 of 21 epistles) that speaking in tongues was a normative and universal experience of early believers?

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Jason Badejo

Bro Epley, whydo you require speaking in tongues for salvation when there is no evidence (pun intended )that the 3,000 in Acts 2:41 spoke in tongues, nor the 5,000 of Acts 4:4? Or for that matter, no evidence in 18 of 21 conversion accounts in the book of Acts, and no evidence from the epistles (where tongues is mentioned in only 1 of 21 epistles) that speaking in tongues was a normative and universal experience of early believers?

The "with evidence of other tongues" has been said and repeated so often that I've even heard it added by some who recite Acts 2:38.

[KeptByTheWord]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

The "with evidence of other tongues" has been said and repeated so often that I've even heard it added by some who recite Acts 2:38.

Me too! I had a preacher's wife quote it to me once with the "evidence of other tongues" added to Acts 2:38... I just looked at her in disbelief. It's almost like someone finding out that a saying they thought was in the Bible isn't... like cleanliness is next to godliness ... or... God helps those who help themselves... lol.

Seems I remember seeing a thread on here about sayings that people really truly believe are scripture and are shocked to find out they aren't...

It seems to me that if something gets repeated often enough, people begin to believe it like it was in the Word...