St. SteVen said:
If you break it down, I'm not sure that Acts 2:38 even makes sense.
1) Repent
Is this done in a moment of time and is then finished? Nope.
2) Be baptized
How exactly? Water baptism, or the Baptism with the Holy Spirit?
3) In the name of Jesus Christ
A task for the baptism facilitator, I suppose?
(and none of this Trinity stuff that Jesus commanded!)
4) For the remission of your sin
I thought Christ took care of that on the cross,
Why is my act paying for my own sin? I don't get it.
5) And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit
How did I repent without the help of the Holy Spirit?
I don't get it until now?
No, you are welcome here.
I wanted to demonstrate how easy it is to mindlessly take something familiar and not question it.
When you break it down, sometimes these things fall apart.
And in this case some serious questions arise. The Bible has contradictions we need to steer around.
Like Jesus' commandment to baptize in the names of the Trinity, which we see nowhere in the rest of the New Testament.
What's up with that?
And how do we react? With workaround apologetics. Thus denying obvious contradictions.