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  1. Skovand

    Is Acts 2.38 the plan of salvation ?

    Also baptism is an act of faith. It’s in baptism our conscience cries out to God and we receive a spiritual circumcision. ( 1 Peter 3:28-21, Romans 6:1-6, and ect..)
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    Is Acts 2.38 the plan of salvation ?

    yes it’s part of the plan of salvation. Eis means into. Repent and be baptized into the forgiveness of sins and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. This promise is to you ( the jews) , the Samaritans ( half Jewish gentiles ) and to the ends of the earth ( the gentiles ).
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    How old is our creation really?

    To go along with this we can look at other aspects of the creation account as well. In chapter one we see male and female made on the sixth day. In chapter two we see Sdam created, and then Adam naming all the animals on earth and finding no partner God puts him in a deep sleep and creates Eve...
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    How old is our creation really?

    That’s not accurate whatsoever of how science explains the chicken and the egg. It’s not a dinosaur suddenly becoming a chicken. You’re talking about slight genetic differences between an offspring and a parent over hundreds of generations and each generation carrying the genetic ancestry of all...
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    How old is our creation really?

    Not true at all. These are not mindless assumptions. These are algorithms created by experts in dozens of isolated fields that don’t depend on one another to generate their time frames. But they do triple check their time frames against other methods and when they all converge on the same era we...
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    How old is our creation really?

    Well I never made any claims about Darwin period. There is a bunch of scientific evidence for human evolution. Besides genetics we see tons of fossil evidence. There are literally millions of search hits by typing in human evolution. It’s 2am where I live and I only woke up to turn on a...
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    How old is our creation really?

    What type of dating did they use? Based on element half lives you use different ones for different things. One big mistake unqualified people often make is that they use the wrong approach to the wrong circumstance, and then they don’t at least double check it using the same process plus double...
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    How old is our creation really?

    Yes I do. My degrees are both tied up into science. Dietetics and Evolutionary Ecology. You can tell me what’s the scientific answer and evidence for your understanding of this topic?
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    How old is our creation really?

    Belief in evolution is not equal to belief in there being no God. I believe 100% in science being accurate about the age of the earth and evolution. I believe 100% in God being our creator and in the Bible. I however have 0% reason to believe that the literary context of genesis 1-11 Is meant...
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    How old is our creation really?

    The earth is approximately 4.54 ± 0.05 billion based off the interpretation of data by over 99% of scientists who are experts in their fields and that includes scientists who are Christians. There are dozens and dozens of ways for us to determine this. We definitely know for a fact not a...
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    How old is our creation really?

    Not true at all. Those are far from speculation. It’s also based off of multiple half lives from different elements, the fossil record, ice cores, dendrological calculations and even algorithms focused on genetic decoding.
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    Is the teaching of Jesus before His crucifixion only for Jews?

    The epistles demand perfection as well. God wants us to be sinless and never sin not even once. But he knows we will so we have grace and mercy. Paul never says sin is ok either. We are supposed to be perfect without sin. We fail and so God gives us grace and mercy. That’s why we can’t earn...
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    Is the teaching of Jesus before His crucifixion only for Jews?

    Luke and Acts is actually one book. The biblical context of the gospels, is more than merely the titles we have for four books.
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    Is the teaching of Jesus before His crucifixion only for Jews?

    Well remember, the four gospels was wrote after many of the other texts. After all Luke wrote the gospel of Luke which included the book of acts. Luke and Acts is actually one book we split apart. Acts contains way more than what Matthew, Mark and John wrote and included the acts of the...
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    Is the teaching of Jesus before His crucifixion only for Jews?

    Paul never says anything to undermine what Jesus taught about adultery. What Jesus said is that anyone who looks after a woman with lust in your heart you’ve committed sexual immortality. Paul never says otherwise. Finding a woman attractive is not the same as lusting after her. We naturally...
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    Is the teaching of Jesus before His crucifixion only for Jews?

    When you follow through it systematically yes. As you see the older covenants fade away into the new covenant you see this seamless transition being guided by the Holy Spirit.
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    Is the teaching of Jesus before His crucifixion only for Jews?

    Jesus spoke what his father gave him to speak. Now God through the Holy Spirit gave the apostles what to say. It’s still all the same message being perfected by the one true boss.
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    What does 'Repent' mean ?

    Repent means to turn away into the opposite direction. You can repent headed East and instead head west. You can repent of bad thoughts and think righteous ones. You can repent of doing something evil, and choose to do good. In English, from a biblical standpoint, repentance is most often...
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    Is Catholicism the Oldest Christian Faith?

    Just to note I’m not a Catholic. I strongly disagree with many of their teachings.
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    Is Catholicism the Oldest Christian Faith?

    https://www.usccb.org/committees/ecumenical-interreligious-affairs/vatican-council-and-papal-statements-islam I’ll have to read each one in their original context but by reading through the collection here it seems they are not saying muslims are saved by Christ, but calling Christians and...