How Do You Ride a Horse, a Cloud, and a Throne?

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Originally Posted by Esaias

If we follow this logic to its rational conclusion, it would mean tht Acts 2:38 is for that generation, not ours. The people were to be saved from THAT wicked and perverse generation, which you seem to interpret as meaning they were to save themselves from the divine judgment coming on that generation in the form of the destruction of Jerusalem. Which seems strange to me, couldn't Peter have simply said "get out of Jerusalem until the Romans destroy it"?

Perhaps you could show how Peter's words to THAT generation have any relevance to us now, almost 2,000 years later?

Why would Acts 2:38 be applicable only to the first century believer, simply because Peter referred to a benefit they would experience in being saved from their wicked generation applicable to their time alone, while mentioning a universal plan of salvation for everyone? Peter mentioned the sun turning black and moon to blood to those people, and that's not saying Acts 2:38 is only for the people who see the sun turn black and moon to blood. Why should the other?