Apostolic Litumus Test: Do you affirm - Yes or no?

[Jack Shephard]

Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea

This verse might be one of the most taken out context verses used by 3 steppers ...

1. The religious elite of Jerusalem .... Annas, Caiphas and others asked a very simple and direct question to Peter and John ... and they defined what they meant by name ....

in verse 7 they ask....

And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?

They were asking under who's authority or power have you been preaching...

2. Peter answers with the personage ... not the articulation of a name.

8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,


9If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;


10Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.


11This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.


12Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

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He is speaking of the person of Jesus Christ ... and that they were standing before them under His authority ..

He then says there is no salvation outside of any other ... other than Jesus Christ ...

This is the part of verse 12 that is cropped out of the lips of 3 steppers ... they only quote the latter half of a verse that is dealing w/ authority rather than the articulation of a name during a properly administered baptism.

Context is everything ... yet 3 steppers love to use Scripture in isolation.

agreed!