Comment from Thomas Corris Thomas Corris WOW!! Imagine that, the Pope is Catholic. In case you were not aware, we are born again of water and spirit. Baptism is how we become born again, not by Alter Calls. 1 min · Like My respond Thomas Corris some people like you think that this passage contradicts the dozens of other plain statements in the Bible that a man is saved by faith and saved immediately when he believes. But when you use the word for in this passage just as it is used so many times in every-day conversation, you will see what Peter said. A man is arrested for stealing; one is grateful for a favor; one is blamed for carelessness; one is commended for bravery. The word for here does not mean in order to or to secure remission of sins, and it is not rendered that way in any translation of the Bible we know of anywhere. The Greek word eis here translated for is sometimes translated in the Bible against, among, at, unto, upon, etc. It might properly be translated here baptized upon the remission of your sins or baptized referring to, or pointing toward the remission of your sins, or baptized in the remission of your sins. When one repents, he receives the remission of his sins. Then the obedient heart, following Christ in baptism, is promised the gift of the Holy Ghost, an entirely separate mutter from salvation. What Peter said was that people ought to repent and then, after their sins are forgiven, they should be baptized as evidence of that. That is exactly what people ought to be baptized for, that is, to show the remission of their sins. That Scripture, then, does not mean that people ought to be baptized in order to be saved.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 17:40:10 +0000
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