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-Does not Acts 2:38 indicate that we should be baptized in physical water?

Baptism is unnecessary for receiving the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit:.Acts 10:47 "Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?" Acts 1:5 "For John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence."

Comprised with.Adam Clarke's Commentary:."It does not appear that Christ either baptized the twelve apostles or ordained them by laying on of hands, yet, from his own infinite sufficiency, he gave them authority both to baptize and to lay on hands, in appointing others to the work of the sacred ministry.".That is, until new light came, changing things:.Hebrews 6:1,2.

When we believe in what Emmanuel came to tell us, we are born of His water and blood:.Hebrews 10:22 "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water." John 3:5 "Emmanuel answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." John 7:38,39 "He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive, for the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because that Emmanuel was not yet glorified.(John 13:31)."

When we believe in Emmanuel we're immersed into His nature:.Ephesians 2:10 "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Emmanuel unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them."

The Creator is the fountain of living waters who immerses us into His Holy Spirit nature:.Jeremiah 2:13 "For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters and hewed them out cisterns.(their own works of righteousness, instead of accepting His righteousness as a gift), broken cisterns, that can hold no water."

In early church times it was common to baptize physically.
   James Montgomery Boice, May 1989 on Acts 2:38 from.Bible Study Magazine:."The clearest example that shows the meaning of 'baptizo' is a text from the Greek poet and physician Nicander, who lived about B.C.E. 200. It is a recipe for making pickles and is helpful because it uses both Greek words, 'bapto' and 'baptizo'.

Nicander says that in order to make a pickle, the vegetable should first be 'dipped'.(bapto).into boiling water and then 'baptized'.(baptizo, meaning immersed).in the vinegar solution. 

Both verbs concern the immersing of vegetables in a solution. But the first is temporary. The second, the act of baptizing the vegetable produces a permanent change.

When used in the New Testament, this word more often refers to our union and identification with Christ than to our water baptism. Christ is saying that mere intellectual assent is not enough.(the 'bapto', the dipping). There must be a union with him.(*), a real change, like the vegetable to the pickle!".How to accelerate this change.

-Is it necessary to be baptized to receive the Holy Ghost.(aka Holy Spirit).and be saved?.Acts 2:38 and Acts 10:47 "Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?".and.Acts 1:5 "For John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence."

We were saved before the world was here:.2Timothy 1:9 "Who saved us and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Emmanuel before the world began."
Romans 4:17 "...God, who quickens the dead and calls those things which be not as though they were."

The Holy Spirit was and is given to those who believe:.Acts 11:16,17 "Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us who believed on the Lord Emmanuel the Christ..." Mark 1:4 "John did baptize in the wilderness and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission.(original Greek is 'release from bondage or imprisonment and forgiveness or pardon of sins {letting them go as if they had never been committed}, remission of any penalty').of sins."

When we are immersed.(immersed is 'being surrounded by', Greek is 'baptizo').in the Holy Spirit of our Creator we have received the baptism of repentance and are now perfect in our Creator's eyes.

Baptism was one of the things the great apostle Paul said to move on from.(Hebrews 6:1,2).and on to the perfection in Christ.

-My pastor says that if I get baptized I should evidence the Holy Spirit by speaking in tongues.

-What does it mean to be."baptized for the dead"?.1Corinthians 15:29 "Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead?"

Paul's subject in this chapter is the resurrection from the dead. 
   Those baptized."for the dead".are those immersed into the death of Christ:.1Corinthians 15:3,4 "For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures." Romans 6:4 "Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Emmanuel the Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." Colossians 3:3 "For you are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God."
 


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