Why Acts 2:38?

[BroGary]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

The requirements for salvation are singular: BELIEVE.


If you believe, you will repent and if you are taught, you will be baptized.

But the infilling of the Holy Ghost-- can you see that this is something that we don't do and thus, can't be a requirement for us to fulfil because we can't do it in the first place?

If God doesn't answer every prayer, why would we expect Him to pour tongues out on every one who converts? That wasn't even the case in the Bible so how is it now?

The Bible is clear that salvation takes more than JUST believing.

Mark 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

Other scriptures show repentance is a MUST.
Other scriptures show receiving the Holy Ghost is a MUST.
Other scriptures show enduring faithful to the end is a MUST.

IF a person JUST believes, but does not also repent, get baptized in Jesus name, receive the Holy Ghost, and endure faithful to the end, they will not be saved.

We will have to disagree on tongues without rehasing it all here, other discussions have shown why we believe that tongues is the initial evidence of receiving the Holy Ghost.