Acts 22:16 Explained | Does Water Baptism 'Wash Away Thy Sins'?

Does Acts 22:16 teach baptismal regeneration? When was the Apostle Paul saved? In this video, I explain the symbolism and significance of Saul's water baptism.

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[FreeGrace]

What can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus! 🙏

[Tenisfamous]

Thank you for always educating me on the word

[itisfinished]

Amen 😁 thank you for preaching the truth

[imperfctlyrare]

Some people have made it a doctrine to be baptised in water before you’re actually saved… God help us all😅

[Holy-Joe]

Thank you for this clear and concise explanation of the word of the Book of the Lord.

There is a heretic false teacher on youtube called "thewordpreacher" who teaches water baptism for salvation... he is the most deceptive false teacher on this issue as he has a way with his words and deceives in such a "kind manner" that people fall into this heresy.
He is unfortunately anathema. Unless of course he finds the Truth and believes on the Blood atonement and Jesus Christ alone for forgiveness and washing away of sins

[CaptainPantys]

This was nuts. I'm in a debate right now with a church of Christ fellow. This cleared up many verses.

[shh]

Nope water baptism does not wash away sins, Jesus's blood washes away sin.

[brothercaleb]

1 Peter 3:18-21 "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, ) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:"
Acts 2:38, John 3:5, Acts 19:1-7, Colossians 2:12 Titus 3:3-5. Romans 6:3, Acts 22:16. No such thing in the scripture of being saved and then being baptized. Jesus commanded it in Mark 16:15-16. And also read 1 John 5:8

[davidmason]

The word for “wash away” in verse 16 of Acts 22 is only used in one other place in the New Testament: 1 Corinthians 6:11, in its context “And such were some of you; but you “are washed” Saul is being instructed to now call upon the Name of the Lord, whom he had been calling upon in his ignorance; “Who art Thou Lord?” Now having “been washed” of his sins.
Incidentally, although so many religions use baptism as a symbolic washing (even the Jews) believers baptism is not a washing but rather a symbolic burial. Romans 6:3-6

[sermontrailers]

Jonathan Shelley: “Explain this verse to me then!”

Norm Diamanté: 😏

[historyperson]

How do you put on Christ? Galatians 3:27 tells us, As many of you that were baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. Paul was struck down by a great light on the way to Damascus, he was blind and didn’t eat or sleep for three days, he was told by Ananias to arise and be baptized and wash away his sins.

[jasonridgeway]

How do you put on Christ? Galatians 3:27 states, "For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ." You are not "in Christ" until your sins are washed away (Acts 22:16).

[zacharyfeinberg]

So Paul was already saved before Ananias came to him? If so why would he say to do something to wash away your sins? Why would Ananias think “Brother Paul” still was in his sins and needed them to be washed away?

[natureboy]

Yeah I’m up late .2 in the morning studying. This verse confuses me because it does sound like you must be baptized to be saved . My son died and he said he was saved because he believes on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation . I was told he went to hell because he wasn’t baptized the right way .

[l.c.]

Why, do you think, Ananias asks Paul to call on His name for the washing away of sins if Paul was already saved? Im trying to clarify this in my own mind

[randallsmith]

It is so nice to not have to pit one verse against another or go to such great lengths to explain away the natural flow and meaning of God's Word because it doesn't fit some preconceived theology.

[SpotterVideo]

A person must be “baptized” to be saved, but it has nothing to do with water. The proof is found below.

Old Covenant Baptism vs. New Covenant Baptism (water vs. Spirit)

Water baptism was a part of the Old Covenant system of ritual washing. The Old Covenant priests had to wash before beginning their service in the temple. (Ex. 30:17-30) When Christ was water baptized by His cousin John in the Jordan River, He was under the Old Covenant system. He also only ate certain foods, and wore certain clothes, as prescribed by the 613 Old Covenant laws. Christ was water baptized by John and then the Holy Spirit came from heaven. (Acts 10:38) The order is reversed in the New Covenant. A person receives the Holy Spirit upon conversion, and then believers often declare their conversion to their friends and family through a water baptism ceremony. Which baptism makes you a member of Christ’s Church?

The New Covenant conversion process is described below. (Born-again)

Eph 1:12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
Eph 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

(A person must “hear” the Gospel, and “believe” the Gospel, and will then be “sealed” with the Holy Spirit.)

Joh 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
(See Jer. 31:34 for the New Covenant promise, and 1 John 2:27 for the fulfillment)



Which baptism is a part of the salvation process, based on what the Bible says?
What did Peter say below?

Acts 11:15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.
Acts 11:16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.


Based on Luke 3:16, and John 1:33, and Acts 1:5, and Acts 11:15-16, the most important thing about the word "baptize" in the New Testament has nothing to do with water. The Holy Spirit is the master teacher promised to New Covenant believers in Jeremiah 31:34, and John 14:26, and is found fulfilled in Ephesians 1:13, and 1 John 2:27. Unfortunately, many modern Christians see water/ every time they read the word "baptize" in the text.

Based on the above, what is the one baptism of our faith found in the passage below? How many times is the word "Spirit" found in the passage, and how many times is the word "water" found in the passage?

Eph 4:1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
Eph 4:2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Eph 4:3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Eph 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
Eph 4:5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, (See 1 Cor. 12:13)

“baptize” KJV

Mat_3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:

Mar_1:8 I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.

Mar 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. (Water or Holy Spirit?, See Eph. 1-13.)

Luk_3:16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:

Joh_1:26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;

Joh_1:33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.

1Co_1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

1Co 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. (See Eph. 4:1-5)

Heb 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. (Old Covenant ----> New Covenant)

[l.c.]

"The washing away of sins was the answer of a good conscience and not the putting away of the filth from the flesh. Can you expand on that? It is not making sense to me.

[Brotherfireball]

“Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”
‭‭John‬ ‭3‬:‭5‬ ‭

“And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.”
‭‭Mark‬ ‭16‬:‭15‬-‭16‬ ‭

“Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: knowing this, that 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.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭6‬:‭3‬-‭7‬

“For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭3‬:‭27‬ ‭

“Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.”
‭‭Acts‬ ‭10‬:‭47‬-‭48‬ ‭

“Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.”
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭5‬:‭6‬ ‭

“Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭5‬:‭24‬-‭27‬ ‭

[mark.walkin]

No. Babtism. Does. Not. Wash. Away. Sins. Only. The. Blood. Of. Jesus. Babtism. Is. Not. Required with. Salvation. Only. Beleive. N. Jesus