[QUOTE=Originalist;1320467]I understand your stance because you are one of the few Apostolics I've met that believes n baptismal regeneration. I do not. Peter declared in
Acts 2:38 to repent and be baptized...in order that your sins may be forgiven.
Sean, do repentance and baptism have the ability to forgive sins? Are they self aware beings?[/QUOTE]
Of course not.
Repentance and baptism are simply our requirements to receive forgiveness and remission of sins bro.
The very acts themselves cause a response from God towards us for salvation.
Brother, dont you think it is kinda strange, you are working this hard to make a verse like the one we are talking about mean something else? Just think about this for a minute. Are there alterior motives, bias? It is obviously "bucking" your theology. It may be part of a root system of faulty beliefs. I have noticed that stuff on me in the past and had to deal with it. There have been some big weeds in my theology in the past, that when I noticed a root, I found it attached to a weed and pulled out the whole thing.
I am not too proud to admit this either. I have recently "busted" some folks on clear misinterpretations on other threads, but they are soooo proud, they would not ever admit that they misquoted something, they just "stick to their story". Worried that their entire concept could "domino" down I guess.
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