Acts 2:38 is a list of things that are between GOD AND THE PERSON.
Repent: God must hear the person indicate to Him that one's ways are turning around, and seeking forgiveness FROM GOD. If it's not in the heart, the outward words mean NOTHING.
Be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins: GOD must see the heart believe that one is being buried with Christ into Christ's death with actual and genuine faith. As the blood remits sins, so baptism is said to remit sins. Both BLOOD and BAPTISM point to the death of JESUS. So, GOD must see the heart that actually believes one is being immersed into that death on the cross. That's what Jesus meant when He said he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. Without the BELIEF the ACTIVITY is useless and void.
And ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost: Only God can give the Holy Ghost. People can fake it and fake tongues. And many have. But God alone gives the genuine Holy Ghost. And it occurs when a person's spirit is born of God.
All these three elements require genuine faith in God THAT ONLY GOD CAN SEE. Each of them can be faked. But that does not do away with the fact that the genuine experience of each them is vital for salvation.
Having said all of that, anyone can go through these motions and FAKE it all. And that means God saw NO saving faith involved in any of it if it's been faked by a person. We can see the outward activity being obeyed. But we cannot see the heart. But the fact remains those three elements are commanded in the Bible and must be carried out with genuine faith for salvation.
When someone goes through those steps, if they faked it that's their problem not mine. We all have enough sense to know the ultimate judgment comes from GOD AND NOT US. AND if God never saw the genuine faith required to make those three elements efficacious, then the person is lost.
And just because they can be faked, and just because many went through the motions alone, does not mean entire religious movements are saved without going through those three elements of genuine faith-filled obedience.
Entire religious movements DO NOT TEACH faith in baptism, since these are the ones that baptize infants. Entire religious movements refuse to baptize in the name of Jesus Christ. These movements do not believe you speak in tongues when the Spirit fills a person as it did in the book of Acts.
It's not lack of going through motions at an altar that makes them lost. People can act out
Acts 2:38 at an altar and remain lost. So, that shoots down you repeated nonsense you've been accusing me of in lying manners for months now, despite my repeated statements I do not look at activity at the altar. But just because people can ACT out those steps in faked obedience, and be lost, that still does not mean entire religious movements who fully avoid and do not follow through in genuine faith with these three elements God requires are saved. two wrongs don't make a right.
So, when we point to
Acts 2:38 and ask these religious adherents if they did that for salvation, and they say NO, then they are lost.
And if they say they DID those three steps, but had no genuine faith required of God in each of them, they are just as lost as a faking OP who went through motions at an altar.
It's not a matter of having the correct words spoken over them at baptism. It's a matter of obeying the word of God and speaking what the word of God said to speak at baptism. It's as serious an issue to speak the name of Jesus in invocation as it is when casting out a demon. the name of Jesus has POWER.
Do people miss the same thing people in Acts missed by saying it's a mere matter of words being said and words don't matter??
Act 3:16 KJV And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
Shazeep, do you believe it is a valid baptism for an infant ot be baptized?
So, please answer my question. Ty.
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