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Actually it matters a lot. That’s why I said it takes a lot of time to work through why I believe it. It will take me hours to systematically work though it and guide you. Hours of work that I don’t have time to go through. Within that chapter, if someone is interested, it lays out which Philip it is.
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Again. Not at all. A lot more can be said about the keys also. Catholics have really painted a picture of it that’s not actually there. But that’s not actually what it is about. The reason why Peter, and John, was sent was because an apostle was necessary to be there.
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Your statement here makes no sense. It seems more like a emotional toss than anything even remotely attempting to be reason. I’m not quoting acts. I stating the doctrine taught there.
Acts 2:37-38. NASB
37 Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what shall we do?” 38 Peter said to them, “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
The we, is everyone. It’s the great commission after all being carried out from Matthew 28. Teach them to believe and be baptized… Water baptism, baptism of fire, baptism of the spirit, and power of the Holy Spirit all tie into this. You can’t actually understand the power of the spirit of you don’t understand the others. It’s a foundation.
Yes the indwelling is the Holy Spirit is very different from the power of the Holy Spirit. Can you explain the differences?
Had nothing to do with peter having keys. It required an apostle. We see the same thing from Paul to Timothy when he was among the elders.
1 Timothy 4:14
New American Standard Bible
14 Do not neglect the spiritual gift within you, which was bestowed on you through prophetic utterance with the laying on of hands by the presbytery.
2 Timothy 1:6
New American Standard Bible
6 For this reason I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
At first it seems like a contradiction. But greek clears it up. In 1T4:14 the word with is meta and means among some when we place the stories together we see this. The elders were there with Paul and Paul places his hands on Timothy to give him the spiritual gift known as the power of the spirit. At this time Timothy was already a Christian. No keys was needed. But an apostle was.
Another major theme to understanding this as mentioned is what is the baptism of fire. Many confuse the baptism of fire with a spiritual blessing or something with the tongues of fire in acts 2. But it’s not. Being baptized with fire is being destroyed in the lake of fire.
Matthew 3:7-12
New American Standard Bible
7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Therefore bear fruit in keeping with repentance; 9 and do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father’; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham. 10 The axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
11 “As for me, Ibaptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 12 His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
The entire verse is linking fire as punishment for the chaff.
It’s midnight here and I’m about to go to bed. In the next few weeks I’ll make posts about the various baptisms , and how it all converges on laying on of hands. Outside of the gospels, and after the promise in acts 1 in how the apostles were to await in Jerusalem for the promise which played out in acts 2.