Religious Cults & False Prophets~ Discussions and DebatesCritical Identity of BaptismActs 2:38
38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. KJV
Acts 10:45
45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
KJV
You are obfuscating the “gift of the Holy Spirit” and the “gifts of the Holy Spirit” in an attempt to justify a false teaching. All believers are gifted with the Holy Spirit who then gives gifts as He pleases. Tongues is one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit given after receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit. Mark 16:15-18
15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
18.They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
KJV
Where the gospel has been preached and disciples have been made these signs have accompanied the spread of the gospel. This does not say that every believer will speak in tongues or heal the sick. In fact: 2 Timothy 4:20
20 Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.
KJV
You brought up: Isaiah Isaiah 28:11-14
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. KJV
What does this mean?
Isaiah 28:11-13
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
The prophet takes the ki ("for") out of their mouths, and carries it on in his own way. It was quite right that their ungodliness should show itself in such a way as this, for it would meet with an appropriate punishment. Vv. 11-13. "For through men stammering in speech, and through a strange tongue, will He speak to this people. He who said to them, There is rest, give rest to weary ones, and there is refreshing! But they would not hear. Therefore the word of Jehovah becomes to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there, that they may go and stumble backwards, and be wrecked to pieces, and be snared and taken." Jehovah would speak to the scoffing people of stammering tongue a language of the same kind, since He would speak to them by a people that stammered in their estimation, i.e., who talked as barbarians (cf., barbari'zein and balbutire; see Isaiah 33:19, compared with Deuteronomy 28:49).
The Assyrian Semitic had the same sound in the ear of an Israelite, as Low Saxon (a provincial dialect) in the ear of an educated German; in addition to which, it was plentifully mixed up with Iranian, and possibly also with Tatar elements. This people would practically interpret the will of Jehovah in its own patios to the despisers of the prophet. Jehovah had directed them, through His prophets, after the judgments which they had experienced with sufficient severity (Isaiah 1:5 ff.), into the true way to rest and refreshing (Jeremiah 6:16), and had exhorted them to give rest to the nation, which had suffered so much under Ahaz through the calamities of war (2 Chronicles 28), and not to drag it into another way by goading it on to rise against Assyria, or impose a new burden in addition to the tribute to Assyria by purchasing the help of Egypt. But they would not hearken ('aabuw' (OT:14) = 'aabuw (OT:14), Isaiah 30:15-16; Ges. §23, 3, Anm. 3). Their policy was a very different one from being still, or believing and waiting. And therefore the word of Jehovah, which they regarded as en endless series of trivial commands, would be turned in their case into an endless series of painful sufferings. To those who thought themselves so free, and lived so free, it would become a stone on which they would go to pieces, a net in which they would be snared, a trap in which they would be caught (compare Isaiah 8:14-15).
(from Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament: New Updated Edition, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 1996 by Hendrickson Publishers, Inc.)
Isaiah 28:11
[With stammering lips] The word which is used here is derived from a verb laa`ag (OT:3932), which means to speak unintelligibly: especially to speak in a foreign language, or to stammer; and then to mock, deride, laugh at, scorn (compare Isaiah 33:19; Proverbs 1:26; 17:5; Psalms 2:4; 59:9; Job 22:19). Here it means in a foreign or barbarous tongue; and the sense is, that the lessons which God wished to teach would be conveyed to them through the language of foreigners-the Chaldeans. They should be removed to a distant land, and there, in hearing a strange speech, in living long among foreigners, they should learn the lesson which they refused to do when addressed by the prophets in their own land.
(from Barnes' Notes, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 1997 by Biblesoft)
The Babylonian captivity fulfilled this prophecy. If you insist on applying this to the NT era then Greek was the language of diplomacy in the Roman Empire and the language used in writing the New Testament.
You have also avoided the fact that the gift of the Holy Spirit can be bestowed before baptism, after baptism, required the laying on of hands is some situations, and other variables that show your basic premise is totally flawed.
I notice you have refused to address the Lord’s commandment found in Matthew 28 that disciples are to be baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. You force an interpretation on Acts 10 to mean baptism is a commandment and then conveniently ignore the one commandment the Lord gave concerning baptism.
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