Baptism In Yah'shuah Signifies A Washing Away Of One's Sins
Acts 22:12-16 reads,
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One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived there, 22:13came to me, and standing by me said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight!’ In that very hour I looked up at him. 22:14He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth. 22:15For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard. 22:16Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’22:16 shows that baptism in water signifies washing away of one's sins. In other words, when one has repented of one's sins, both in the heart and by outward conduct, that one's baptism in water in Yah'shuah's name signifies that that one's sins have been forgiven, made possible by Yah'shuah's sacrifice. It therefore appears that part of the preaching of the word on Yah'shuah prior to baptism must include Yah'shuah's sacrifice for the sins of all sinners.
Noah's Ark A Symbol Of Baptism
1 Peter 3:17-22 reads,
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For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil. 3:18Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; 3:19in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison, 3:20who before were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ark was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. 3:21This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you - not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 3:22who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.How is Noah's ark a symbol of baptism, as Peter says in 3:21?
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