Where Was Baptism? The Missing Sacrament

[Anthony Pritchard]

Acts 22:16
‘Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins by calling on His name.’

How does this verse say a person gets "baptized?" By being immersed in water? Nope. By "calling on His name!" Thus the meaning is Get up and be spiritually baptized into Christ, and wash away your sins, with the washing of regeneration. When and if God credits your faith as righteousness, you have "called upon His name!"

Van, once again you are not answering the question I asked.

I did not ask whether the Old Testament saints were ultimately perfected through Christ. Nor did I deny that they were.

I asked where Scripture actually describes Abraham, David, Isaiah, Daniel, Elijah, or any other Old Testament saint receiving a postmortem spiritual baptism into Christ.

Hebrews 11:39-40 and Hebrews 12:23 say they were made perfect. They do not describe a postmortem spiritual baptism.

Likewise, Acts 22:16 cannot simply be assumed to refer to spiritual baptism because that is the very point under dispute.

My question remains unchanged: Where does Scripture actually describe the event you are asserting took place?

 

[Van]

Van, once again you are not answering the question I asked.

I did not ask whether the Old Testament saints were ultimately perfected through Christ. Nor did I deny that they were.

I asked where Scripture actually describes Abraham, David, Isaiah, Daniel, Elijah, or any other Old Testament saint receiving a postmortem spiritual baptism into Christ.

Hebrews 11:39-40 and Hebrews 12:23 say they were made perfect. They do not describe a postmortem spiritual baptism.

Likewise, Acts 22:16 cannot simply be assumed to refer to spiritual baptism because that is the very point under dispute.

My question remains unchanged: Where does Scripture actually describe the event you are asserting took place?

Thanks for the clarity, the OT saints were made perfect by their spiritual baptism into Christ. They were made perfect by the washing of regeneration.

Let me see if you will answer this: How does an individual become "in Him, in the Beloved, in Christ?" Of course my answer is by being called into His kingdom, baptized into His kingdom, sanctified into His kingdom, believed into His kingdom. We are in Christ by God's doing. And only in Christ are we made alive, undergoing the washing of regeneration.

Colossians 2:10 NASB
and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over every ruler and authority;

So the assertion is not an assumption, but a logical necessity.