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Well I guess you have shown that here in your questioning the NT gospel. There can be no question whatsoever, that Acts 2:38 speaks of baptism in water.

No one here has said we are saved by water. You are not any better at reading what is posted here than you are at reading the Bible.

Which of course says nothing about whether or not you can choose to no longer continue to believe. One does not lose his free will once he has been saved.

Says the one who denies the clear apostolic teaching of baptism in water. It is not up to you to either question the faith of another. Doing so, particularly when it comes only from disagreeing with your faulty understanding of scripture, is sheer egotism.

I have dug deeper and what I see is your Zwingliism.

Oh really, and what specifically did you see?

Perhaps it never occurred to Paul that you would think that baptism was anything other that water baptism. One baptism, in water, two results, namely, the forgiveness of sin and the receipt of the gift of the Holy Spirit. Paul and Peter agree.

You are asking why God would place any requirements upon those He will save., Why did God put the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden and then tell Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit of that tree? In the OT, what was the significance of killing animals? Why would God require...

You just have. No more than you.

You looked deeply into their eyes to see their very soul. That is rather hilarious.

Trust God to make that decision. Do not try to tell God if and when He saves. That applies not just to those who couldn't be baptized, but also to those who honestly accepted the false teaching that baptism has no connection with being saved.

Just how in the world could you possibly know that?

The working of salvation is a double cure to the sin sick person that occurs in baptism. It includes two distinct acts. One is justification or forgiveness, in which the guilt and punishment for sin are canceled. The other is regeneration or new birth, in which the sinfulness that has invaded...

Yes, and God does that when you are water baptized.

The water does not do anything. But God says, through the apostle Peter at Pentecost, that He will forgive the sins of the penitent believer and give the gift (indwelling) of the Holy Spirit to him in baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. In John 3:3, Jesus said, "Truly, truly, I say to you...

I certainly am not replacing the baptism of the Spirit with baptism of water. In fact I make the argument that baptism of the Holy Spirit is the giving of the gift of the Holy Spirit to the penitent believer. To be baptized (immersed) with the Holy Spirit is none other than having the Holy...

Actually, I have never said that. What I have said is that God has promised the repentant believer that in baptism his sins will be forgiven and he will be given the gift of the Holy Spirit. You are free to ignore that promise and hope for something else, but that doesn't seem to me to be very...

He is a Zwignliist. And he complains about Calvinists. what a joke.

Oh really!? And what did He say to do?

Take my water baptism as a payment for sin??? What are you talking about? Your lack of understanding of such things is definitely showing up with comments like that.