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This question came up this morning and so I thought I'd post my thoughts here. It seems to me that most of the confusion surrounding...

My post didn't stop with Acts 9. Paul was baptizing whole families at once clear into Acts 18. If your argument is valid then Paul...

Well, of course it makes perfect sense. That's the reason it was the very first thing Paul did once having been filled with the Spirit...

I attended a seminar on "The Plot" where, at the end, Bob opened it up for questions. I asked him to comment about getting baptized. His...

Been there, done that. Church membership itself is unbiblical. The pit of disputed details seem to not have a bottom. No. In fact, it...

One major point I am making is that it seems to me that a lot of Mid-Acts people turn not getting water baptized into a form of...

The assumption is that Paul is NOT referring to water baptism, not that he was doing so! The natural reading would be for the original...

So, "not water" is not an argument. It's just a statement of your position. Having said that, my quoting the passages wasn't an argument...

This is so incoherent that it staggers one's ability to believe that anyone could hold such a view long enough to have typed it all out...

I'm out of time! Here are the passages about baptism related to or discussed by the Apostle Paul. (Compiled by AI).... Here are the...

It's not explicitly prohibited. It's just completely inappropriate and confusing. It might be the most contentious issue in the...

If you agree that the practice is not prohibited then we are in sufficient agreement to make the rest somewhat moot. I agree that there...

I, on the other hand, find them fully persuasive. Indeed, Paul was baptized by a devout Jew that knew nothing of the dispensation that...

That doesn't mean that they actually are. All of this is interpretation that is based on the premise that water baptism is invalid. It...

While the argument for "permissibility" seeks a middle ground, a consistent Mid-Acts Pauline perspective suggests that continuing water...