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Acts — Other Claims and Spirit/Authority Questions
This Bible study keeps every distinct claim and common response for Acts — Other Claims and Spirit/Authority Questions together. Start with the exact wording you just heard, then open that claim for the full Bible answer.
Acts 1 frames the Spirit promise as power and witness, not remission by waterActs 1The Apostles Pointed Away From ThemselvesActs 3:12What Repentance Is NotActs 17:30Why the Holy Ghost evidence cannot be pushed asideSystem / Doctrine“Acts 5:32 Says the Holy Ghost Is Given to Them That Obey Him”Acts 5:32“Philip Preached Jesus, and the Eunuch Asked for Water”System / Doctrine“Philip's Daughters Prophesied, So This Proves the Transmission Rule”Acts 21:9
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If someone quotes only the verse reference, begin with the first major claim. If they make a narrower grammar, chronology, Spirit, or exception argument, open that exact variant instead of answering a caricature.
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Acts 5:32 Says the Holy Ghost Is Given to Them That Obey HimYOU MAY HEARChurch of Christ response to objection: “Acts 4:12 says ‘there is no other name under heaven...by which we must be saved,’ and baptism is another name.YOU MAY HEAREvery detailed conversion example in Acts begins with hearing and culminates in baptism for the remission of sins — baptism to receive Christ’s atoning sacrifice.YOU MAY HEARPower and Witness, Not Remission by WaterYOU MAY HEARRepentance and Its Fruit Must Not Be CollapsedYOU MAY HEARRepentance is defined as a life-commitment and reformation, while confession is treated as another salvation step before baptism.YOU MAY HEARRomans 10:10 confession + repentance + baptism assembled into plan-of-salvation chain.YOU MAY HEARThe booklet places hearing, believing, confession, repentance, baptism, and faithfulness in a chain whose logic makes saving possession wait beyond belief.YOU MAY HEAR