Acts 2:38 PROVES that IT IS UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE to TEACH WATER Baptismal REGENERATION from the BIBLE

In this Lesson for the Koine Project Class, it is easily Demonstrated that any user of the Bible's languages can PROVE that it is UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE to TEACH (water) Baptismal Regeneration from the Bible.

[jamesfletcher]

I must have missed or not understood something…I’m not disagreeing with the perspective you presented re: what is NOT being taught in 2:38, yet I’m curious as to what exactly IS being taught here re: “the gift of the Holy Spirit”? Is there a function or working of the Holy Spirit in our lives that’s only available to us through our participation in the body of Christ (ekklesia)?

[steverentfrow]

Baptism means water baptism; that's what baptism is.

Your kind of logic demands proof that toast means toasted bread. It is true that toast could be used in a metaphorical sense, but its common and ordinary sense means toasted bread. Baptism means water baptism. A water baptism is a Spirit baptism when it is in the Name of Christ, because the Spirit is promised. Baptism isn't water alone but is water with the Word of God. Jesus said, "My words are Spirit and they are Life"

Baptism (Water with God'sword) is Spirit and Life
Acts 2:38 doesn't "prove" that baptismal regeneration is not true. That's absurd. Just read the church fathers and try to find one who didn't believe in baptismal regeneration.

Peter is the one who told them to be baptized for the remission of sins ; and Peter is the one who said ""can we withhold WATER from these who have received the Spirit just as we." And the Ethiopian eunuch who said here is much WATER what prevents me from being BAPTIZED. That Ethiopian had EVERYTHING he needed in that baptism so that he could go his way rejoicing.

You may think he should have said it this way or that way, but in truth, it is Peter himself that says in 1Pe. 3:21, that BAPTISM now SAVES us. And he corilated it to the WATER in the flood of Noah's day.

If you won't believe that clear word of prophecy (teaching) from Peter himself, neither will you be persuaded, though one should rise from the dead and command His disciples to go into all the world and preach this gospel, and those who believe and are baptized shall BE SAVED.