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Originally Posted by mfblume
It must be. The context continue sot say that WITH MANY OTHER WORDS Peter told them to save themselves from that untoward generation. That means the words already cited, along with others, regarded salvation.
Act 2:40 KJV And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
What we have recorded is the SUMMARY of how to be "saved".
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown:
Act 2:40
with many other words did he testify and exhort — Thus we have here but a summary of Peter’s discourse; though from the next words it would seem that only the more practical parts, the home appeals, are omitted.
Save yourselves from this untoward generation — as if Peter already foresaw the hopeless impenitence of the nation at large, and would have his hearers hasten in for themselves and secure their own salvation.
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You've either missed or ignored yesterday's discussions. Peter told the people "how to be saved" in
Acts 2:21. He then went on to advise them that the Messiah had come and gone and that this nation (Israel) has crucified the One that God had made "both Lord and Christ."
It was at that point that the question came up, "What must we do?"
If the question had been "What must we do to be saved?" Peter would have told them to clean out their ears and pay attention... "I already told you that!" (
Acts 2:21). He even uses the word "saved" here to clear up any misconceptions of the issue.
To insert the word "saved" later does harm to Peter's who point about the nation of Israel and the corporate "guilt" concerning the death of this innocent man (Jesus).