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Do you mean to suggest that the I Cor. 9 passage teaches that Paul was winning Jews in such a way that such converts remained under the...

It is in this video.

Virtually any framework at all other than a Mid-Acts framework will have biblical proof for water baptism all over the place. I said it...

Alright, your AI experiment is a perfect opportunity that should allow us to land this plane. I think at this point it should be pretty...

I have got to go to Israel one of these days! I agree, the tomb would have needed to be opened in order to prove that Jesus wasn't...

You don't need to read minds. Baptism was an extremely well known thing. There hadn't ever been any sort of baptism that wasn't...

No it isn't! Everyone knew what baptism was and knew it involved water. If Paul had meant something else, he would have said so. No...

There is no evidence that they were anything else. They received the Holy Spirit via Paul laying hands on them. That and the fact that...

Saying it doesn't make it so. Romans 6:4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised...

The thing that is unusual about it is that no one would read it that way unless they had an reason to do so that was not communicated by...

You know as well as I do that there's a difference. Quoting a passage and just letting the naked verse mean what it seems to say is...

Thanks for the clarification, it makes sense to me now.

That's funny. If I'm begging the question, then so are you. Acts 19:1-7 does not explicitly declare a "second water baptism". Therefore...

No sir! I am purely and only and explicitly QUOTING the verse! It says what it says! You have to interpret it to say something that...

Your "bridge too far" comment made me think that you thought that they were saved, but then "sinned to much". Agreed, so for him it was...