Hello everybody, it's me it's Tall23 back with another video.
Today I'm going to be starting a new series of videos, and this time I'm actually doing
a series of videos.
Before I've said this a lot of times on my channel and it's just been like only
two or three videos, but this one is very easy to make, very simple, and very
easy to go over and it regards scripture.
So these are commonly misunderstood, misinterpreted, or misused verses.
Verses which are applied by either false teachers, false prophets, liars, people who don't understand
the scriptures in order to preach false doctrine, or even among saved Christians
who just use some of these verses to teach some false doctrine or some things which
necessarily aren't true.
So the purpose of this series is to go over some of these verses, to look into them,
to read them, and to take them in context and interpret them in the light of the entire
Bible to understand what it really means and not what just some theologians twisted
as saying.
So some of these, again, are really not that big of a deal, they're just like minor
doctrinal differences or errors and things like that, and some of them are big heresies,
sometimes people will actually twist them to teach false doctrines and so on.
So the first verse I want to go over in this video is Acts chapter 2 verse 38.
It says,
Then Peter said unto them, repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of
Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy
Ghost.
Now, cults like Mormonism and Catholicism and so on which believe that you have to
be baptized in order to be saved use this verse in order to support their doctrine.
They say, well, it says that in order to have remission of sins you need to be baptized.
However, that's not what they're teaching here.
This is misused so often, and I even used to believe that this is what it meant before
I got saved, but this is not what it's saying.
The phrase for the remission of sins is similar to the phrase wanted for murder.
When you see a wanted poster or wanted sign that says wanted for murder, it's not saying
that the person on the sign is wanted because somebody wants to murder them.
It's saying that they're wanted by the police or by the authorities because they've murdered
somebody.
So it means because of.
So for the remission of sins means because of the remission of sins.
This is evidenced itself by the Greek word which is used here, ice, in Acts chapter
2 verse 38, which can be used in this way for because of, and it's used in this way
in Matthew chapter 12 verse 41 where Jesus says they repented at the preaching of Jonah.
That word at there is the same Greek word ice.
So the people of Nineveh repented because of the preaching of Jonah.
They didn't repent because they wanted to hear the preaching of Jonah.
That makes no sense that if you read the book of Jonah that's not what happened.
They repented because they heard the preaching of Jonah.
So for the remission of sins means because of the remission of sins.
And furthermore, scripture teaches that the remission of sins comes only by one condition
and that is faith in the blood of Jesus Christ.
It says in Acts chapter 3 verse 19 which was also preached by Peter, repent ye therefore
and be converted that your sins might be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall
come from the presence of the Lord.
So it doesn't say anything about baptism yet he's basically using the same language because
he's not teaching at all in Acts 2 38 that you have to be baptized in order to receive
the remission of sins.
And then it says in Acts 10 43 which was also again spoken by Peter it says to him
give all the prophets witness that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall
receive remission of sins.
The Bible teaches that salvation is by putting faith in Jesus Christ.
Jesus said for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever
believeth on him or believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Okay so there's no requirement of baptism for eternal life or everlasting life.
If baptism is a requirement for salvation then the story of the thief on the cross
in Luke 23 wouldn't make any sense because it says that Jesus said unto him that he
will be with him in paradise.
Now if you have to be baptized in order to be saved how does that make any sense?
Because the thief on the cross never got an opportunity to be baptized he died a few
hours later on the cross during his crucifixion.
So baptism has nothing to do with salvation and yet people use this verse they twist
this verse.
The Bible declares that their remission of sins is by faith.
So we are baptized because of our remission of sins because we've already been saved.
A saved person is baptized.
Look also at Acts chapter 8 verse 37 where it also teaches that the prerequisite for
being baptized is to have faith on Jesus Christ.
So thank you everybody for watching this is a very simple introduction to the series.
I'll try and do like one of these videos every week or every two weeks or something
like that.
I don't know if I'll have like a set schedule maybe I will eventually but I'll try to do
some of these I'll try not to do too much of them but also not too little either.
So thank you everybody for watching and goodbye.