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“FOR REMISSION OF SINS” IN ACTS 2:38
	In his original commentary on Acts 2:38, page 42, J.W. McGarvey had this to say to those who deny that baptism is necessary for salvation: “Sometimes the advocates of these various renderings, when disheartened by the failure of their attempts at argument and criticism, resort to raillery, and assert that the whole doctrine of immersion for the remission of sins depends upon the one little word for in the command, 'be immersed for the remission of sins.' If this were true, it would be no humiliation; for a doctrine based upon a word of God, however small, has an eternal and immutable foundation. But this is not true. On the contrary, you may draw a pencil-mark over the whole clause, 'for the remission of sins', erasing it, with all the remainder of Peter’s answer, and still the meaning will remain unchanged. The connection would then read thus: 'Brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said to them, Repent, and be immersed every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ'. Remembering now that these parties were pierced to the heart with a sense of guilt, and that their question means, What shall we do to be saved from our sins? The answer must be understood as the answer to that question. But, the answer is, Repent and be immersed; therefore, to repent and to be immersed are the two things which they must do in order to be saved from their sins.” (Underlining mine, W.D.)

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