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Water baptism is a carryover from part of the Levitical Law. There are many examples of people in the Old Testament who would wash themselves with water as a final step to being clean. Water baptism was an outward sign of washing, and then you would be clean to God. Baptism in water, and the...

I wrote a book about this (I will post the link to the online book here) and somewhere in it I list the following verses... 1 Corinthians 2:5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power (dunamis) of God. 1 Corinthians 4:20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but...

I looked up every word for sin in the New Testament and then wrote about it and you can see part of it by clicking on the following link. Every single human being that I have told this about tells me I'm totally insane or working for the devil. But when I trace what everyone has been taught...

I'm not claiming on this one. Again, I'm guessing. If the Word does not tell us then we do not know. I'm guessing maybe it was the guy that only knew the water and not Jesus Christ and so they did not get the spirit. Maybe it was Simon from the 8th chapter who got them screwed up in the sorcery...

I see us walking in the new nature. The reason I cannot lust in the flesh when following after the spirit is because it's impossible to do so since the spirit of Christ does not lust after the flesh. We undergo a miraculous exchange at the center of our being once we have the spirit of Christ...

I don't know what the problem was. But here I'm suggesting your second choice. I'm guessing.

Oh my God you're brilliant.

Romans 7 tells us right up at the top of the chapter that Paul is talking to them who are into or know the law. And then by the context of the whole chapter is how we can see it's all about human's and how they toy with their flesh. What Paul talks about in the seventh chapter of Romans is what...

Boy do I agree with you. Here's some Scripture on it... Romans 6 How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. he died...

Boy I just don't see how your mind works. Cleanses us of all our sins and you turn it into obviously it refers to continuing in sin.

I heard a teaching on it once where someone said Apollos was in that area and may have spoken to some. They brought out a map showing that Apollos did pass by that area.

I read a report that I did not save and I wish I had because it was so well written. It referred to John as being the greatest at contradicting himself with just a few pages written. 1 John 3 & 5 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him...

Could this have something to do with Acts 18? There was a guy who only knew water baptism and was not he the guy who shared the Scriptures with the group of folks you're talking about who believed, but had no spirit. Perhaps it was Apollos not knowing the correct baptism for the Christians that...

What faith are we talking about? Their faith or the faith of Jesus Christ?

The authority (in the name of Jesus Christ) is where receiving the spirit of Christ comes from. Water and soup and apple butter mean nothing.

It's not my fault I know the Scriptures so well. I woke up one day and it was just well known after looking at it for so many years.

The authority (in the name of Jesus Christ) is where receiving the spirit of Christ comes from. Water and soup and apple butter mean nothing.

The older I get the more I believe the Catholics were never right about anything. I would welcome just one item where I might be wrong. And I can't just read the Bible anymore. Skim it at best since I have most of the New Testament memorized

Like I said... we don't know. Here's my guess...

We don't know who that group was. I have a guess it might have been the belief system called Gnosticism was taking root in Christianity at the time the book of John was being written that taught there was a supreme and unknowable Being, which they designated as the "Monad." The Monad produced...