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Study Questions

1. What is the only means available to us for God’s forgiveness of those sins confessed and repentented of According to the Apostle Paul in Romand 5:8-9 and Hebrews 9:22?
2. How do we receive God’s forgiveness of our sins through Jesus’ death and shed blood on the Cross according to the Apostle Peter in Acts 15:7-11 and the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 2:8-9?
3. According to Peter in Acts 15:7-11, why did God save the Gentiles he was preaching to and give them the Holy Spirit?
4. Did this happen before or after they were baptized in water?
5. What is the process of salvation according to the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 1:13-14?
6. Is receiving the Holy Spirit the means of our salvation? What is it?
7. If water baptism is not the means of our salvation, what is it?
8. Why are people in error who use passages like Acts 2:38 to teach that salvation comes through water baptism?
9. According to Acts 10:44-48, when did God give the Gentiles assurance that they were saved by giving them the Holy Spirit, before or after they were baptized in water?
10. Why didn’t Peter refuse to baptize the Gentiles in water according to Acts 10:44-48?
11. According to Peter then in Acts 10:44-48, what then qualifies a person to receive water baptism?
12. According to Peter in Acts 10:47, when was he saved and when did he receive the Holy Spirit? As a result of water Baptism or as a result of believing on the Gospel?
13. In Acts 8:36-37, what did the Evangelist Philip require of the Ethiopian Eunuch before he would baptize him in water?
14. What does Paul tell us in Romans 10:9-10 determines our salvation?
15. What is the symbolical meaning of water baptism according to Paul in Romans Chapter 6?
16. We receive Jesus salvation for our sins through faith, not by works. How then do we know if a person is truly saved or not? What are seven evidences that the Bible give us that a person is born from above and truly saved?