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Originally Posted by Berkeley
I was laying in bed one evening not too long ago and I was meditating on these thoughts:
If baptism is because of the remission of sins, why were the Jews instructed to Repent?
That makes absolutely no sense.
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I think that some would say that the repentence brings the forgiveness of sins. The Jews were told to "Repent" first, and then be baptized.
After repentance the people were baptized in Jesus name
because of the forgiveness of sins that they had just recieved.
I'm not really set in one position on this any more. Most of my life was spent as an ardent "3 Stepper" but that left too many questions unanswered. Right now I can see both sides of the argument in
Acts 2:38. However, the thing that saves is our faith in the grace of God (
Ephesians 2:8).
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