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Re: Since Acts 2:38 teaches that the baptism commanded is "for the remission of sins,
1st off. Your right, he does tell us when it occures. When GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT baptizes us, Not when some sinner dunks us in water. (you have to drop the fact that baptism always means an act in water, it never did in the greek, and it does not in scripture)
2nd, Raised in him in faith (not water) is regeneration. Again, Paul tells us in Titus, that it was not by our own work of righteousness (which water baptism is) but by his mercy, the HS washed and renew us (it is the act of God. not an act of man.
3rd. Again, your trying to replace the work of God with the work of men. You holding God back to aact only when a man acts. A man could have faith which is pure. but until that act of man, He is still dead in sin.
Not the one performed by man, but the one performed by God.
1. John the baptist fortold Jesus would baptize in the spirit. It was a message he taught to everyone he spoke to. Jesus will baptize YOU (them) With the HS and fire
2. Jesus told us, we will be baptized by the spirit.
3. Peter witnessed the baptism of the spirit in gentiles
Peter made it clear Water baptism is a symbol (antitype) just like the waters of the flood was. It represents what truely saves us the living waters of God (the word, the HS) which can and will cleanse us, for you see, as peter said, water baptism does not remove filth from the flesh (sin from the old nature or soul) it is the answer of a good conscious towards God. the resurrection of Christ is what saves us, not water.
Rom 6. ! cor 12, Col 2, All are spirit baptism. Not water baptism. the context does not fit water baptism.
As paul said.
1 Cor 6: 11 - But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
By the spirit. not by some man in some bathtub or river.
Paul tells us in Col 2 that the removal of sins was accomplished by Christ and this could not be more true but he also tells us that this took place in the act of baptism in which we were raised from the dead.
2nd, Raised in him in faith (not water) is regeneration. Again, Paul tells us in Titus, that it was not by our own work of righteousness (which water baptism is) but by his mercy, the HS washed and renew us (it is the act of God. not an act of man.
3rd. Again, your trying to replace the work of God with the work of men. You holding God back to aact only when a man acts. A man could have faith which is pure. but until that act of man, He is still dead in sin.
It is here that he says God made us alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses. The removal of sin in baptism is the act of God not is the symbols themselves. You insist this has to be Holy Spirit baptism but this is simply not what Paul said. It is water baptism that is the representation of the death burial and resurrection of Jesus. There is no passage of scripture anywhere that connects Holy Spirit baptism with the removal of sin. Here is a simple question EG. When Paul told the Ephesian Church that there is only one baptism, to which baptism was he referring?
Not the one performed by man, but the one performed by God.
1. John the baptist fortold Jesus would baptize in the spirit. It was a message he taught to everyone he spoke to. Jesus will baptize YOU (them) With the HS and fire
2. Jesus told us, we will be baptized by the spirit.
3. Peter witnessed the baptism of the spirit in gentiles
Peter made it clear Water baptism is a symbol (antitype) just like the waters of the flood was. It represents what truely saves us the living waters of God (the word, the HS) which can and will cleanse us, for you see, as peter said, water baptism does not remove filth from the flesh (sin from the old nature or soul) it is the answer of a good conscious towards God. the resurrection of Christ is what saves us, not water.
Rom 6. ! cor 12, Col 2, All are spirit baptism. Not water baptism. the context does not fit water baptism.
As paul said.
1 Cor 6: 11 - But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
By the spirit. not by some man in some bathtub or river.