{"id":220,"date":"2005-06-02T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-02T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-07-20T15:11:48","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T19:11:48","slug":"deluge-of-baptism-questions-tmpacts-1-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblearchive.com\/blog\/deluge-of-baptism-questions-tmpacts-1-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Deluge of Baptism Questions -tmp(Acts 1-22)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We left off in our study on baptism performing an
\nexamination on one of the key proof-texts by supporters of baptismal salvation.
\nIn our brief overview of that section we experimented with big fancy words: differential diagnosis<\/a>. Realizing that all it meant was having all the
\ndetails and drawing different conclusions based on those details we now move
\nforward in our study spending a short time questioning baptisms in the book of
\nActs.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

{{Acts 8:12}}
\nPhilip proclaims Christ in Samaria. The crowds pay attention to Philip’s
\npreaching and to the (miraculous) signs which he performs. The people
\nproclaimed that “This man is what is called the Great Power of God.” Probably
\nthe first big revival since Jesus visited in {{John 4}} occurs as the people
\n(1) believed the good news about the Kingdom
\n of God and the name of
\nJesus Christ (2) and were baptized. Even a certain sorcerer by the name of
\nSimon believed and was baptized. Word reached Jerusalem about their reception of the Word
\nof God and Peter and John came up to pray for them that they might receive the
\nHoly Spirit for He had not fallen upon them. The text specifically stating that
\n“they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus” ({{Acts 8:16}}).
\nThey began to receive the Holy Spirit via the laying on of the apostle’s hands.
\nSimon, wanting the Holy Spirit tried to pay cash and he was called on as being
\nin the bondage of iniquity. Was he saved? Don’t know…Luke doesn’t give us more
\ndetails but the words are pretty condemning. Where was regeneration in this
\nscenario? Was it at the baptismal waters? Was it on the laying on of hands?
\nWere they already regenerated and now receiving the Holy Spirit in power? When
\nwere the people saved?<\/p>\n

{{Acts 9:18}} and {{Acts 22:16}}
\nYoung Saul, an up and coming Pharisee is found zealously
\npersecuting the Christians. At one point even holding the coats of murderers.
\nWith some highly charged letters in hand and the power to start arresting the
\nChristians within his grasp, he is met by the resurrected Lord. After revealing
\nto Saul that he was actually persecuting God, Jesus Christ sends him to
\ncontinue to Damascus
\nto meet a certain Ananias. Instead of going to the synagogue he goes to Ananias
\nwho tells him of God’s plan for his life as well as a message of the filling of
\nthe Holy Spirit plus the return of sight({{Acts 9:17}}). The message also
\nconsisted of a command which was to “Get up and be baptized, and wash away your
\nsins, calling on His name.” ({{Acts 22:16}}) After regaining his sight he got
\nup and was baptized. When was the Holy Spirit received? When he regained sight
\nor after his baptism by water? What did Ananias mean by “wash away your sins”
\nin conjunction with “be baptized” or are they two separate thoughts? And could
\nPaul actually wash away the sin of persecuting the risen Lord? Was that even
\nhis call?<\/p>\n

{{Acts 10:47}}
\nI spoke about this peripherally in my other articles.
\nBasically, after a series of miraculous visions, Peter winds up preaching the
\ngospel starting first with “the man who fears [God] and does what is right is
\nwelcome to Him”({{Acts 10:34}}) and climaxing with Jesus of whom the prophets
\ntestified “that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives
\nforgiveness of sins ({{Acts 10:43}}). The Holy Spirit decides to prove the
\npoint as Peter is still speaking and falls upon those who are listening to the
\nmessage. All the circumcised believers who are with Peter are amazed at what is
\ngoing on. Peter, realizing how these Gentiles were speaking in tongues and
\nexalting God and remembering the word of the Lord (who said “John baptized with
\nwater, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit” {{Acts 11:16}}) requests
\nsome water to baptize them in the name of Jesus Christ. He readily acknowledges
\nthat He could not stand in the way of God but specifies that this Spirit was
\ngiven to them after believing in Jesus Christ ({{Acts 11:17}}). When did
\nregeneration happen? After they were baptized? After they believed? Or is this
\ndifferent from regeneration? Why did Peter’s message to these Gentiles only
\nconsist of “Believe in Him” with the result of receiving the forgiveness of
\nsins? Why did the message not consist of the same words as in {{Acts 2}} or {{Acts
\n22}}: Repent, Believe and be Baptized?<\/p>\n

{{Acts 16:15}}
\nA woman named Lydia, very well off and several
\nhundred miles from her home town is marked out as being a worshipper of God. On
\na certain Sabbath, where the women gathered to pray by the riverside, Paul and
\ncompany preached the gospel. The Lord opened her heart to respond says the
\ntext. Subsequently she and her household were baptized. No mention of the Holy
\nSpirit but we do see the Lord opening her heart to respond although she was
\nalready a “worshipper of God”. What does this mean? What did the baptism mean?
\nIt says her household…does this mean her children or babies? Would a business
\nwoman travel several hundred miles with babies in tow? <\/p>\n

{{Acts 18:18}}
\nStaying at the house of a certain Titius Justus, a
\nworshipper of God who lived next door to the temple, Paul had the opportunity
\nto preach in and around the synagogue area. The leader of that synagogue, Crispus,
\nbelieved in the Lord with his entire household.<\/p>\n

Indeed many of the Corinthians “when they heard were
\nbelieving and being baptized”. Paul settled there for a year and six months,
\nteaching to word of God among them. When did these people get baptized? The
\ntext says that it was as “they heard and were believing”…but according to
\nPeter’s words earlier they would have received forgiveness of sins without the
\nwater. And why is there no mention of repentance? Indeed, the earlier part of
\nthe chapter shows us very unrepentant people {{Acts 18:5-6}}. <\/p>\n

{{Acts 19:2-5}}
\nWhen Paul arrives at Ephesus
\nhe found some disciples who had not received the Holy Spirit. Paul asks them
\ninto what where they baptized to which they responded the baptism of John. Paul
\npoints out to them that John’s baptism was of repentance but John’s message was
\nto believe in Him who was coming after Him…Jesus. Hearing this they were
\nbaptized in the name of the Lord Jesus and when Paul laid hands on them the
\nHoly Spirit came on them and they began to speak in tongues and prophesy.
\nInitially we would say that the right baptism was necessary for their receiving
\nof the Holy Spirit but we could easily argue that Paul’s laying on of hands was
\nnecessary. Also we would have to come up to Paul’s initial question which had
\nnothing to do with water, namely “did you receive the Holy Spirit when you
\nbelieved?” To this they answered that they had not even heard whether there was
\na Holy Spirit clueing in Paul in the deeper issue at stake. These believers
\nwere repentant and baptized yet they did not have the Holy Spirit? Why? What
\nwas missing in their situation? Why was the gospel spoken to them a redirection
\naway from John and onto the One of which John spoke? <\/p>\n

General questions: why don’t we see Jesus’ formula of “in
\nthe name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit”? why do we only see
\nbaptisms “in the name of Jesus”? How do we reconcile those two things? Why do
\nthe Jews in Acts 2 receive a message of “Repent, Believe and Be Baptized” while
\nwhenever we see Gentiles the message consists of “Believe”? Why does the Spirit
\ndecide to enter without water or with water or by “laying on of hands”? What
\nmessage is being proclaimed by these scenarios? Some of these questions may not
\nhave answers…but the point is to diagnose the text and see how they react to
\nthose questions.<\/p>\n

-r-
\n<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Full Series<\/span>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1. Baptism Necessary for Salvation?<\/a>
\n2. One Baptism Versus the Many?<\/a>
\n3. Baptism and Big Problems<\/a>
\n4. Baptismal Regeneration (Acts 2:28)<\/a>
\n5. Deluge of Baptism Questions (Acts 1-22)<\/a>
\n6. Baptism and Romans (Rom 6:1-11)<\/a>
\n7. Noah and Baptism (2 Peter 3:20,21)<\/a>
\n8. Paul On Baptism (1 Cor 1:14-18)<\/a>
\n
\n9. The Error of Infant Baptism<\/a>
\n
\n10. Remember Your Baptism (Rom 6:1-11)<\/a>
\nRelated
\n
\nRuss On Baptism<\/a>
\nBaptism of Linkage<\/a><\/span>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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