Does Acts 2:38 mean we have to be baptized to get into Heaven? -Debate

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elf3

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And also you should add that when Jesus went to John to be baptized, immersed in water, He said this has to be done !!!
Ok yeah but was it done for His salvation or His remission of sin?
 

Jabberjaw

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KENNETH...you teach you can loose salvation if you don't repent......answer the question please as you are like a politician tap dancing around the answer....


Originally Posted by dcontroversal
So, how long do you have Kenneth before you are separated and lost again after you sin....1 second, 10 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes, maybe a day?


PAY ATTENTION to the words "SO, HOW LONG DO YOU HAVE"
Until you die
 

Jabberjaw

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No im saying that Peter had limited understand the of the gospel that was revealed in and through Paul and what Peter says has to be seen through the revelation Paul gives.
Are you saying Peter didn't know what he was saying in Acts 2:38?
 
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kennethcadwell

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Look I have studied Greek for many years and read biblical Greek ..the text reads "believe not" and that translation has changed the truth of Gods Word...I suggest you get a translation that don't change the bible to what they "think" it should say.
You just don't like that translation because it coincides with what our Lord Jesus said a believer in Him will do.
Nowhere does He say you can believe in Him, and disobey His commands and be saved.
The other thing you keep doing is only using the second command to love our neighbors as ourselves, that is not the only commandment that has to be followed to fulfill the law. He said in these commandments, not this commandment.
And the only way you can follow the greatest commandment given by Him, is to be obedient to the rest that He taught and commanded.

And I do have a translation, for I have the KJ, NKJ, NLT, ESV, and a couple others I use. Then I also through study compare to other versions to see if how they change a scripture really changes the meaning or not.
And changing those who don't believe to those who do not obey does not change the meaning, for obedience is part of a believers walk. Disobedience throughout the bible is listed as sin, and classified as unbelief.
 
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Mitspa

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Are you saying Peter didn't know what he was saying in Acts 2:38?
No im saying you have to look at the whole counsel of God in the scriptures and clearly Peter did not have the revelation that Paul had.
 
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kennethcadwell

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Ok yeah but was it done for His salvation or His remission of sin?
Jesus did not need remission of sins, for He was sin free.
This was done as our Lord Jesus put it, for us to fulfill all righteousness.....
 

Jabberjaw

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How about you go back a page or so and read my repost on this verse.
How about you go back here and see what Mitspa said when he implies Peter didn't know what he was talking about in Acts 2:38
 
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Mitspa

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You just don't like that translation because it coincides with what our Lord Jesus said a believer in Him will do.
Nowhere does He say you can believe in Him, and disobey His commands and be saved.
The other thing you keep doing is only using the second command to love our neighbors as ourselves, that is not the only commandment that has to be followed to fulfill the law. He said in these commandments, not this commandment.
And the only way you can follow the greatest commandment given by Him, is to be obedient to the rest that He taught and commanded.

And I do have a translation, for I have the KJ, NKJ, NLT, ESV, and a couple others I use. Then I also through study compare to other versions to see if how they change a scripture really changes the meaning or not.
And changing those who don't believe to those who do not obey does not change the meaning, for obedience is part of a believers walk. Disobedience throughout the bible is listed as sin, and classified as unbelief.
That's twice friend you have tried to add to the scriptures in this discussion we have had on this issue...you know the commandment not to bear false witness? Do you think changing the words of the scriptures that are clear to something it clearly does not say is bearing false witness? Or do you really honor the law as you claim?
 
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Pharisees aren't "Christian", Christians don't call Christians names.

Maybe you should study more, Christians are Christians because they follow Christ, Christ said to baptize :

Matthew 28:19-20 (NKJV) [SUP]19 [/SUP] Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, [SUP]20 [/SUP] teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
Yeah, well in order to be a Christian you have to be saved first and NO ONE IS SAYING NOT TO BE IMMERSED.....NOW to the name calling...I never called you a name as I asked YOU WHAT YOUR LAST NAME WAS....which is NOT calling names......!

MAKE disciples IE....saved children of GOD by faith through GRACE and then IMMERSE the SAVED DISCIPLE which is the 1st ACT of OBEDIENCE which does not save and is evidence and public testimony of faith and believe into the resurrection of JESUS!
 
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kennethcadwell

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No im saying you have to look at the whole counsel of God in the scriptures and clearly Peter did not have the revelation that Paul had.

But even Paul himself that the gospel he preaches can not be different then that of what was already preached.
Meaning he can not teach and preach differently then what was handed down original by the Lord Jesus before His crucifixion. He said clearly that if he, another apostle, teacher, preacher, or even one claiming to be an angel of God come preaching differently then what we have already heard from the Lord. Then what they bring is not from God.
 
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Mitspa

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How about you go back here and see what Mitspa said when he implies Peter didn't know what he was talking about in Acts 2:38
Ga 2:14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all,
 
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Mitspa

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But even Paul himself that the gospel he preaches can not be different then that of what was already preached.
Meaning he can not teach and preach differently then what was handed down original by the Lord Jesus before His crucifixion. He said clearly that if he, another apostle, teacher, preacher, or even one claiming to be an angel of God come preaching differently then what we have already heard from the Lord. Then what they bring is not from God.
have you read the scriptures before and after that? Ga 1:11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

He said this right before he rebuked peter and all the others Apostles for straying from the truth of the gospel ..
 
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That's twice friend you have tried to add to the scriptures in this discussion we have had on this issue...you know the commandment not to bear false witness? Do you think changing the words of the scriptures that are clear to something it clearly does not say is bearing false witness? Or do you really honor the law as you claim?
Another tactic of those who reject grace dia faith...kind of like Satan in the garden...added ONE word and changed the whole context
 
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kennethcadwell

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That's twice friend you have tried to add to the scriptures in this discussion we have had on this issue...you know the commandment not to bear false witness? Do you think changing the words of the scriptures that are clear to something it clearly does not say is bearing false witness? Or do you really honor the law as you claim?
Yes I do know the commandment not to bear false witness, yet you just did it by claiming I am adding to the scriptures which I am not.

Where did I change it at, the word belief with obey. Well I have some eye opening news for you, for a believer is one who obeys. You can not be a believer and not obey, for He is not your Lord if you do not do what He says;

Luke 6:46-49


And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.


One who hears only but does not do does not have salvation, for they are a disobedient servant.
And disobedience is called a sin of unbelief.
 

Hizikyah

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Why would the seed of Messiah keep Yahweh's Law and why would the adversary hate those who keep Yahweh's Laws if they were invalid?

Revelation 12:17, "And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went to make war with those who forsook her seed; her seed being those who keep the Laws of Yahweh, and have the testimony of Yahshua Messiah."
 
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kennethcadwell

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Another tactic of those who reject grace dia faith...kind of like Satan in the garden...added ONE word and changed the whole context
I don't reject grace through faith, I love what the Lord my God did for me.
The thing is I am not deceived as I also know that like James said that faith is dead if it does not have works.
 
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Mitspa

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I don't reject grace through faith, I love what the Lord my God did for me.
The thing is I am not deceived as I also know that like James said that faith is dead if it does not have works.
Works of faith friend ...like rahab the harlot...not dead religious works to justify the flesh.
 
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kennethcadwell

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have you read the scriptures before and after that? Ga 1:11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

He said this right before he rebuked peter and all the others Apostles for straying from the truth of the gospel ..

Yes I have read those scriptures, that still does not change the fact that Paul can not preach different then what Jesus did.
Paul was a pharisee that persecuted and killed believers, it wasn't tell Jesus appeared to him and asked him why He was persecuting Him. Paul's doing bad to others, was doing bad to the Lord. Then the Lord sent Him to be baptized and commissioned to carry out the same gospel message to the gentiles, not another.
 
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Mitspa

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Yes I do know the commandment not to bear false witness, yet you just did it by claiming I am adding to the scriptures which I am not.

Where did I change it at, the word belief with obey. Well I have some eye opening news for you, for a believer is one who obeys. You can not be a believer and not obey, for He is not your Lord if you do not do what He says;

Luke 6:46-49


And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.


One who hears only but does not do does not have salvation, for they are a disobedient servant.
And disobedience is called a sin of unbelief.
You don't get to change the words of the bible and then demand others accept your idea of why you changed it to what it clearly does not say and then pretend you uphold Gods law not to bear false witness... Its a lie to change words in the bible to that which it does not say...its not a matter of translation from the Greek to the English its a bold attempt to change the truth of the gospel from grace to works.