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In post number 43 all you posted (in blue below) of that context in Acts 16 was this: Sirs what must i do to be saved ............... BELIEVE YE ON CHRIST JESUS . I made my post to remind readers that belief alone does not save as some people claim. And I see your post number 43 got some...

I see that the questioned asked by the OP, that being, if the theif had been baptized or not really points out that the "thief argument" against the necessity of baptism is not/has never been a valid argument for it is based on unprovable asumptions and upon impossibilities.

"Accepting Christ" would require doing what Christ says (Lk 6:46) and Christ says repent or perish (Lk 13:3). This means one has not 'accepted Christ' unless, until one repents, that is, one is rejecting Christ as long as one remains impenitent.

In post number 99 you made the comment: ".....but how can you repent if you are not saved first..." You would have one saved BEFORE one repents which that order cannot be found in the NT gospel. The Bible puts repentance BEFORE salvation/remission of sins. No one was saved in the NT while...

John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you...the CONTEXT is Jesus speaking to His Apostles who He chose for that office, those men did not choose themselves to the office of an Apostle. It has nothing at all to do with how men are saved..nothing. You hypothetical example proves...

Commands imply both ability and accountability. It would be nothing but evil and saditic on God's part to command of man something impossible then eternally condemned man for not doing the impossible. In the OT we have an example of an evil king called Pharaoh who took from the Israelites the...

The exact phrase "repent of sins" is not found in the KJV but that does not mean it is not taught. Simon for example was commanded to "Repent therefore of this thy wickedness" (Acts 8:22). What cannot be found is people being saved who remained impenitent of thier sins, (Rom 2:4-5)

27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. 28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29 Jesus answered and said unto...

Jn 6:46 This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. Jesus calls believing a work Jn 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life; but he that obeyeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. 'believeth' is contrast to 'obeyeth not'...

1 Pet 3:21 baptism doth also now save us Rev 1:5 the blood of Christ washes away sins Jn 19:34 Christ shed His blood in His death Rom 6:3-5 baptism is the means by which one gains entrance into the death of Christ where He shed His blood that washes away sins submitting to water baptism is not...

"work of God" means God is the source of the work being given to do, not that God does the work of believing for men. The people asked "What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?" 1) Jesus did not tell them do no works lest you try and merit your salvation 2) The people asked what...

Can one who refuses to repent be saved? What proof is there the thief had never been baptized? (The anti water baptism argument hinges on this question else the whole 'thief argument' is based on biased assumption)

Can those who refuse to repent of their sins be saved, (Rom 2:4-5; Luke 13:3; Acts 2:38; Acts 17:30; Acts 26:20)?

1) the Bible does not state specifically if the thief had ever been baptized or not, we can only speculate if he had been or not. He may have been of those in Mark 1:5 who were baptized but he later turned to a life of crime then finds himself repenting of his sins before Christ upon his cross...

A person's works are his own works whether those works be sinful, unrighteous works or obedient, righteous works. On judgment day each person will have to own up to and answer for the type of works they did in this life. Rom 2:6 "Who will render to every man according to his deeds:" Where one...

One must examine ALL the context whisch includes repentance and baptism on part of the jailer. Beleif only will never save the impenitent and unbaptized.

Look at the fuller context 30-and brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 31-And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy house. 32-And they spake the word of the Lord unto him, with all that were in his house. 33-And he took them the same...

I showed you HOW men can be PERFECT. Men can be perfect TRHOUGH CHRIST when men are baptized into Christ Gal 3:27 men 'put on' Christ, put on Christ's perfect righteousness therefore are seen as perfect by God THROUGH Christ. People continue to put their teachings above the Bible unfortunately.

Jn 6:45 God draws men by His word when men have been TAUGHT, HEARD and LEARNED. The drawing is not by some random, miraculous act of the Holy SPirit apart from the word of God being taught, heard, learned.

And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither. And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord...