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Cool. We're on the same page on this
one.
Bill
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Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 6:46
PM
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Truth as viewed
by one of the greats
In a message dated 2/1/2005 5:34:33 AM Pacific
Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Hey John,
If you will allow the word eis
to be translated the way that it is on hundreds of times (perhaps over one
thousand times) in Scripture, you will discover that we are not repenting
and getting baptized "for" the remission of sins, but "into" the remission
of sins. Absolutely. In fact, this word, even when translated
with words other than "into" nearly always carries with whatever the
translation, the nuance of movement "into." In Gal
3:27, we are immersed INTO Christ, and as a result, are putiing him
"on." Repentance and baptism are responses to that which has
already been provided in Christ. As you know --
I, at times, do not say what I mean to say. What you write
beginning with "repentance and baptism ..." is exactly what I beleieve and
is a part of my post ---- I
think? The "gets us saved" part is already a reality in the
finished work of our Savior.And I hope that was somehow present in my
statement, What I wrote was my way, at this point in time, of
allowing for the biblical teaching of the universality of God's gift in
Christ to be coupled with our response AS a function of faith.
Where many see "repentance" as a "requirement," something that must be
obeyed, the biblical message presents it (repentance, various acts of
benevolence, contrition, and so many other "works") as that which springs
from faith and a certain move of the God within. Perhaps
I did not make this clear. I do agree with you, however, that it
is upon believing (which in the context of 2.38 is called repentance) in
Jesus Christ that we receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Bill
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