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The Spirit they received would be considered invalid had they not desired Baptism with water. The Holy Spirit is the author of the rite of Baptism. If Baptism in the Holy Spirit is believed to have occurred PRIOR to Baptism in water the Spirit will cause the desire to Be baptized with water. The...

Im sorry. I misunderstood. Not necessarily saved yet but obviously Cornelius and his household are who Jesus meant when He told Peter in the vision on the roof to not call profane what He had sanctified. So you are right in that hey were cleaned by Jesus personally like those in the upper room...

Riiiiggghht. :rolleyes:As a general rule that kind of statement follows a reasoned irrefutable rebuttal.

Because you don't understand Baptism the meaning of this event is lost to you. This event highlights that water is required for Baptism. You don't hear Peter saying, well I guess water isn't necessary for them. No Peter said who can deny them water now? Meaning that they were used to the Holy...

You ever wonder why Peter's failings are at the forefront of Gospel story at Christ's arrest and execution? Why not Philip or one of the others? Why it was Peter's behavior that was so important for Paul to correct? If James was the leader of the Church why wasn't he the one Satan wanted to...

Jesus addressed Satan because Peter dared to rebuke Jesus. Jesus followed by explaining that Peter was was not understanding the mind of God but thinking like men. Jesus was calling Peter to a higher view Peter had just been given a role of authority and Satan immediately distorted the meaning...

The canon was discerned over time and decided by Church councils.

You do. According to you, in your statement quoted below, it has authority to judge human opinions. I'm not rejecting Sacred Scripture just your opinion. Why do you equate your opinion with Sacred Scripture? Well, not like the NT at all, perhaps you should consider the difference between an...

Gen.2 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Gen 3 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the...

Knowing Our Savior Jesus Christ didn't come to be our savior but came as our savior it's revealed that His human life began at His conception. This event is not just evidence of the dignity of unborn life but testimony from the greatest unborn human beings who were ever born. Luke 1 And how...

Very contradicting.

Nope. No one would choose death if they had that choice. Would you? Choosing when you die is the only choice you can make. You can't choose to avoid the consequence of sin.

Wrong. A human person is a composite of body and soul. A body is not a person. A soul is not a person. The soul departs and enters a disembodied state known as death, rest or sleep. The place from which the witch of Endor summoned Samuel the prophet. A person dies when the soul no longer...

Jesus wouldn't have died if we didn't kill Him. Death had no grip on Him. Only Jesus had a life to give. No one else ever born could choose to die. No one else's life was an acceptable Sacrifice. No one else could conquer death. No one else could be Our Savior. Because Jesus didn't eat the...

Curious. I didn't notice.

it doesn't mean that at all. His soul entered the disembodied state His body in the tomb.. He wouldn't have died if we didn't kill Him. He chose to die. No one else could. Everyone else is going to die anyway. Because He is God death had no hold on Him

Well, one must ask, how is it the three persons be one God. We understand that only God can say "I always was". The Father can. The Son can. And the Holy Spirit can. That is existence no creature can fathom. To support that we see all three in cooperating in the act of creation. Gen 1 In the...

Unless Such person is one of the Trinity. God calls God, God. Doesn't prove anything.

If He isn't God what's so special about Him coming in the flesh?

A greater God and a lesser God? Isn't that polytheistic?