Acts 10

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how do you interpret Acts 10 where Cornelius and his household receive the Holy Spirit prior to being baptized with water? Does this mean that being “born again” in the Holy Spirit is sufficient and water is unneeded? Tell me what you think.
 
I interpret it to indicate that even though baptism is the normal way that we are born again through water and the Spirit (as revealed to the Church through the Scriptures, Jn 3:5; ), God is not limited in action to what he commands the Church to do. God can give the Spirit to whom he will, if it is within his plan of salvation.
 
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Fieryjades:
how do you interpret Acts 10 where Cornelius and his household receive the Holy Spirit prior to being baptized with water? Does this mean that being “born again” in the Holy Spirit is sufficient and water is unneeded? Tell me what you think.
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Keep reading what Acts 10 says. Peter commanded that they be baptized by water, even after knowing that they were sanctified by the Spirit. The former was baptism by desire, the latter was a sacrament. The sacrament is necessary, according to Acts 10.
 
Is baptism optional for salvation? Do you have to “accept Jesus as your personal savior” by being “born again” through the Holy Spirit to be saved?
 
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Fieryjades:
Is baptism optional for salvation? Do you have to “accept Jesus as your personal savior” by being “born again” through the Holy Spirit to be saved?
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  1. Baptism is not optional for us if we are able to be baptized.
  2. Yes, you have to “accept Jesus as your personal savior” by being “born again” through baptism and the Holy Spirit to be saved as I pointed out above, but it isn’t a one time statement of faith, as some Protestants believe. After baptism we all called to continually live in obedience to Jesus as Lord of our life.
 
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