Believers of Acts 2:38 down through history?

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

Well, I see you got a breather, and now we can start where we left off.

Why aren't you Eastern Orthodox?

If History can negate anything found in the text of scripture. Then you have two choices, one Eastern Orthodoxy, or (where it looks like you are headed) Atheism.

Oh, one more, Hinduism.

Its history is documented, pretty well I might add.

Throw a little funeral pyor ash into your hair and beard. Wrap yourself naked in a blanket sitting by a fire, and beg for food. Bro, we got HISTORY for you!

You still don't get it.

You're so narrow minded you don't care about how anyone else thinks, feels, or desires that claims be validated.

Everyone has an interpretation of the Bible. And the more crazy the claim, the more we should desire to see it backed up. Because without anything to back it up, your interpretation is just a pathetic as anyone else's.

When someone tells me that it doesn't matter if no one believed in Acts 2:38 down through the ages, because the Bible held the truth all along, it allows for a gap of history in which no soul was saved. It allows for the Gospel to have been a whopping failure for nearly 2,000 years. I can't embrace that kind of thinking. Right or wrong, I can't do it. I can't see the Gospel being that pathetic of a failure. I think it even insults the nature of God. With some evidence that this message was indeed present throughout the ages, I can actually take a deep breath and relax.

I told you, I'm a big softy. I'm not as hard as you are. But I will say this. You had me considering how anemically pathetic this interpretation was and how incapable it was to endure and be a light to men for nearly 2,000 years. Not because I "needed" history to validate it. But because I needed to know it wasn't such an abysmal failure. Because if God proved incapable of providing the light of truth for men throughout all those centuries... He is certainly incapable of saving you or me.

Try to accept that not everyone thinks like you. Some of us have rather rigorous processes of examination that we must go through to feel at peace with an idea.

I look at it this way... if no one else believed the way you interpret the text until the 20th century... it's a private interpretation. Something fringe and cultic to be rejected.