Rick Atchley The Deal About Baptism

Rick Atchley hangs salvation only on a person's ability to believe: baptism does not contribute to salvation but to one's one faith. However, Christ in Isaiah and Jesus in person joined faith to AND obedience.  The command from the wilderness onward was to PREACH the Word by READING the Word for Comfort and doctrine. That is to prevent anyone from "private interpretation" or "further expounding."  That will guarantee that people can hear Jesus join FAITH to BAPTISM by the Greek word Kai.  Any softening of the demand that a Disciple of Christ obey direct commands and approved examples to "walk in the steps of Jesus" who was clothed with the sins of humanity and was not reclothed until after His obedience in baptism where God acknowledged Him as a Son.

Only God will be able to explain to us the massed multitudes of theologians WORK at a major industry trying to be mediators in song and sermons get so anxious to explain why a believer need not OBEY God's direct command lest they upset Him.  It is not possible for an isolated disciple to misunderstand "he that believeth AND is baptized shall be saved."  However, theologians or doctors of the law become quite hostile and insist that one should TRUST their own power to believe but not in Jesus' connection with active obedience in being baptized for salvation or the remission of sins.` They may not know about the Prophetic Type in the prophets by the Spirit OF Christ or "he that believeth not shall be damned" is the Greek Apistos which does not COMPLY with what it may believe. The word speaks of being treacherous.

If Jesus was correct that doctors of the law take away the key to knowledge as some alien urge, why trust them when they quote part of a verse and then "fill in the blanks" with their own opinion. A herald as presbyter or Kerrux in civil society was to be punished if they did not deliver a message without altering it or charging for it on the receiving end.  From the wilderness onward the Spirit of Christ (the Rock) commanded the PREACHING of the Word by READING the Word for comfort and doctrine.  Groups organized around the Worship-as-opposed-to-Bible class are 27/7 WORKS dependant.

Dēmiourgos *ergō I.one who works for the people, a skilled workman, handicraftsman, Od., etc.; of medical practitioners, Plat.; of sculptors, id=Plat.:—generally, a framer, maker; logōn Aeschin.; peithous dēmiourgos hē rhētorikē Plat.: metaph., orthros dēmioergos that calls man to work

Cicero Mur [29] Wherefore, not only is the military glory which you slight to be preferred to your formulas and legal pleas; but even the habit of speaking is far superior, as regards the attainment of honours, to the profession to the practice of which you devote yourself. And therefore many men appear to me to have preferred this at first; but afterwards, being unable to attain eminence in this profession, they have descended to [p. 344] the other. Just as men say, when talking of Greek practitioners, that those men are flute-players who cannot become harp-players, so we see some men, who have not been able to make orators, turn to the study of the law.

Artĭfex  Of an orator or writer: “Graeci dicendi artifices et doctores,”  Matthew 22:35] One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.
artist, artificer: “ut aiunt in Graecis artificibus eos auloedos [flute-player] esse, qui citharoedi [guitar-player] fieri non potuerint, sic, etc.,” Cic. Mur. 13, 29; cf. Ov. M. 11, 169 al.: “artifices scaenici,” [Outlawed as self-pleasure in Romans 15]
B. A maker, originator, author, contriver: Also for a sly, cunning contriver, inventor of a thing

Tekhnit-ēs , ou, ho A. [select] artificer, craftsman II. one who does or handles a thing by the rules of art, skilled workman,
also hoi peri tous theous t. persons versed in religious practices, Id.Cyr.8.3.11; anthrōpos t. logōn, as a sneer, Aeschin.1.170; hoi Dionusiakoi t. or hoi peri ton Dionuson t., theatrical artists, musicians as well as actors

These are the clergy of the Babylon mother of harlots (Revelation 17) and John calls them SORCERERS who will be cast alive into the lake of fire.
Revelation 18.22 kai phōnē” kitharōdōn kai mousikōn kai aulētōn kai salpistōn “ou mē akousthē” en “soi eti,” kai pas tekhnitēs pasēs tekhnēs ou mē heurethē en soi eti, “kai phōnē mulou” ou mē akousthē en soi eti,

The grinders from a piping-sound were always associated with prostitutes which includes selling ANY of your body parts in the name of the Lord.

History records that musical tones deluded the pleasure centers and made learning impossible: A Musical Instrument is a Machine for doing hard work mostly in making war and creating the shock and awe or sorcery to affect a "religious" atmosphere.

Orgănum , i, n., = organon, I.an implement, instrument, engine of any kind (mostly post-Aug.), Col. 3, 13, 12.— Of musical instruments, a pipe, Quint. 11, 3, 20; 9, 4, 10; Juv. 6, 3, 80; Vulg. Gen. 4, 21; id. 2 Par. 34, 12 et  In Genesis 4 Jubal handled musical instruments "without authority" as a way to collect all of the free animals and then SELL them back to those God created free.

Organon , to, (ergon, erdō) A.instrument, implement, tool, for making or doing a thing,
3. musical instrument, Simon.31, f.l. in A.Fr.57.1 ; ho men di' organōn ekēlei anthrōpous, of Marsyas, Pl.Smp.215c ; aneu organōn psilois logois ibid., cf. Plt.268b ; “o. polukhorda” Id.R.399c, al.; “met' ōdēs kai tinōn organōn”

HOWEVER THE ORGAN OR HARP OF GOD IS:

2. organ of sense or apprehension, “ta peri tas aisthēseis o.” Pl.R.508b ;
"Holding" the harp in Revelation means "apprehending the Word of God."

Which includes ANY work presumed to AID The Word of Christ in the Prophets and Apostles.

ergon , or WORK is performing WORSHIP: Jesus said that the kingdom does not come with OBSERVATION meaning religious rituals
latr-euō , Elean latreiō (q.v.), A.work for hire or pay
3. serve the gods with prayers and sacrifices, “l. Phoibō” E.Ion152 (lyr.): c. acc. cogn., ponon l. tini render due service, ib.129 (lyr.); “ponon . . tond' elatreusa thea” IG2.1378.

Jesus died to give us REST from the laded burdens and burden laders. Remember the boast about instruments making WORSHIP WARS?
ponos , ho, (penomai) labour in vain

When the Pharisees are said to MAKE LONG PRAYERS in order to extort money from widows and wokers, HYMNS are defined as a class called PRAYERS.

Eur. Ion 152 But I will cease from labor [145] with the laurel branch and I wil hurl from golden vases Gaia's fountain, which Castalia's eddies pour out, casting out the moist drops, [150] since I am chaste. May I never cease to serve Phoebus (Abaddon and his musical worship MUSES) in this manner; or, if I do, may it be with good fortune. Ah, ah! Already the birds of Parnassus have left their nests, [155] and come here. I forbid you to approach the walls and the golden house. I will reach you with my bow, herald of Zeus, though you conquer [160] with your beak the strength of all other birds. Here comes another, a swan, to the rim of the temple.
        Move your crimson foot elsewhere! Phoebus' lyre, that sings with you,
        [165] would not protect you from my bow [the Psallo code]
        Alter your wings' course; go to the Delian lake; if you do not obey,
        you will steep your lovely melody in blood

Orga^n-os , ē, on,

A.working, forming, “organē kheir” E.Andr.1014 (s.v.l.): Organē as epith. of Athena, BCH52.52 (Thasos, v B.C.), IG2.1329, Hsch., Phot. ; cf. erganē.

J. AJ 1.60 But Jubal, who was born of the same mother with him, exercised himself in music; and invented the psaltery and the harp. But Tubal, one of his children by the other wife, exceeded all men in strength, and was very expert and famous in martial performances. He procured what tended to the pleasures of the body by that method; and first of all invented the art of making brass. Lamech was also the father of a daughter, whose name was Naamah.

Jubal "handled" musical instruments meaning "without authority" and carrying the meaning of sexual authority.

WHEN A GROUP IS MENTALLY CRIPPLED BY HAVING ALL OF ITS GIVING HEED (THE WORSHIP WORD) SUCKED UP BY UNAUTHORIZED SERMONIZING AND PERFORMANCE MUSIC IT IS EASY TO SLIP IN FALSE TEACHINGS CONTAINED IN "ORTHODOX SPEAK."

Because theology speak takes a lot of "context" this review will be in PARTS until we have discussed all of the prooftexts.

Rick Atchley:  Baptism is a serious step in the life of a believer. It not only is a cleansing from sin, but also a close identification with Christ. Of course, there is no power in the water, the power is in a person’s faith that God is connecting them to the cleansing blood of Christ through their expression of faith. It is an infusion of God’s grace and a powerful outward sign of a person’s relationship to Jesus. By it, one publicly proclaims their identity with Christ rather than with the world.

Peter said that BAPTISM was necessary FOR the remission of sins and receiving A personal spirit made holy by the "washing away of sins." Peter also said that BAPTISM SAVES US.  That ends the argument for Disciples of Christ. The question is HOW DOES BAPTISM SAVE?  Peter said that Baptism is HOW we call on the Name of Christ REQUESTING A good conscience which is A holy spirit.

Study Guide, Part 1

Rick Atchley attempts to deny OBEDIENCE TO A COMMAND as a work by saying that baptims is JUST FAITH in action.  While it is true that baptism is NOT A WORK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS which WE do, Rick and others do not hesitate to IMPOSE WORKS as somehow needed to Mediate in song or sermon to replace the command to PREACH the Word by READING the Word for Comfort and Doctrine and not paying theologians to do the thinking and mediating.

The "breath" of God in His Word separates the "viper" race which was not "just" and therefore not capable of being baptized in Water.  The masses of people at Pentecost were probably Edomites and always antagonistic to Christ Who warned them through the prophets whom they murdered. The  wind separates the chaff from the grain and is constructive.

Hom. Il. 13.560 So the twain at the one moment let fly, [585] the one with his sharp spear, and the other with an arrow from the string. Then the son of Priam smote Menelaus on the breast with his arrow, on the plate of his corselet, and off therefrom glanced the bitter arrow. And as from a broad shovel in a great threshing-floor the dark-skinned beans or pulse [590] leap before the shrill wind and the might of the winnower;

li^gu^ros , of a clear, sweet sound, as of the Sirens, “ligurē thelgousin aoidē” Od.12.44; ligurēn entunon aoidēn
of locusts, Hes.Op.583; “l. surigges” Id.Sc.278: metaph., of poets, Id.Op.659; “aoida”

Pnoe blast, 2. generally, breath, metaph., pnoiē Hēphaistoio the breath of Hephaestus, i.e. flame, “pnoai Aphroditēs” Id.IA69; III. vapour, exhalation, spodos propempei ploutou pnoas, of a burning city

Eur. IT 67
Orestes [homosexual[ Look out, take care that no one is in the path.

Pylades I am looking, and turning my eyes everywhere, in examination.

Orestes Pylades, do you think this is the hall of the goddess, [70] for which we set sail from Argos?

Pylades [75] Trophies of strangers that have been slain. But I must look all around and keep careful watch.

Orestes O Phoebus, [Abaddon, Apollyon] where have you again brought me into the snare, by your oracles, since I avenged my father's blood by the murder of my mother, and was driven by successive Furies, [80] a fugitive, away from the land, and completed many winding courses; and coming to you I asked how I might arrive at an end to whirling madness and my labors, which I have carried out, wandering all over Hellas. . . . [85] And you told me to go to the boundaries of the Tauric land, where Artemis, your sister, has an altar, and to take the statue of the goddess, which is said here to have fallen to this temple from heaven; and, taking it by craft  [the Dogs] of some stroke of luck, [90] to complete the venture by giving it to the Athenian land—what was to come next was not spoken of—and if I did this, I would have rest from my labors.

Aphroditē [i_, hē, （aphros) II. as Appellat., sexual love, pleasure, Od.22.444; “hup' Apollōni psauein Aphroditas” Pi.O.6.35; “erga Aphroditēs” h.Ven.1,9, etc.; ma tēn A., nē tēn A., a woman's form of oath, Ar.Lys.208, Ec.189, etc.{Venus, Zoe, Lucifer]

The BURNING SPIRIT or BREATH of Aphrodites is Singing, Playing, Gyrating on the stage as a defacto sexual activity to MAKE CERTAIN that you keep your eyes on the team and OFF the Word.

ONLY BY FULFILLING THE PROPHETIC TYPE TO QUALIFY JESUS AS THE SON OF GOD WOULD BE THE PURE LAMB ABLE TO OFFER UP HIS OWN BODY FOR OUR SINS.

Matthew 28:18-20;

Mark 16:15-16;

John 3:3-5;

John 6:28-29;

He is NOT said to be a believer until after his baptism.

Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

THE PROPHETIC TYPE OF CALLING ON THE NAME OF THE LORD TO SAVE US FROM THAT "NEW STYLE WORSHIP."

2Kings 5:11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand,
        and call on the name of the LORD his God,
        and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. 
2Kings 5:12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus,
        better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean?
        So he turned and went away in a rage.

Naaman is our TYPE of those who want to, as Max Lucado once said, just look up and say FATHER. Well, salvation means the remission of sins ONLY available to those who want to be a disciple of Chrixst

2Kings 5:13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said,
        My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it?
        how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
2Kings 5:14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan,
        according to the saying of the man of God:
        and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
2Kings 5:15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company,
        and came, and stood before him: and he said,
        Behold, now I know that there is no God in all earth, but in Israel:
        now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.


BAPTISM SAVES US because we REQUEST A good conscience or A holy spirit: a good conscience is a good consciousness or a co-perception of the Word.
 Paul said that only those who turn, are converted at baptism can read BLACK text on BROWN paper because THE LORD IS THE SPIRIT and He does NOT speak to theologians.


A holy spirit (ours) reads:
        Speak to one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs
        But, Oding and Psallo IN the heart.


An UNholy spirit who denies the words of Jesus reads:
        Sing TO the others with my own silly praise ditties
        And make melody upon a guitar.


Zephaniah 3:4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons:
        her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
Zephaniah 3:5 The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity:
        every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
Zephaniah 3:6 I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate;
        I made their streets waste, that none passeth by:
        their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.


Zep 3:7 I said, Surely thou wilt fear me,
        thou wilt receive instruction;
        so their dwelling should not be cut off,
        howsoever I punished them:
        but they rose early,
        and corrupted all their doings.

Rumpo , break, burst, tear, rend, rive, rupture; to break asunder, burst in pieces, force open
II.  Trop., to break, violate, destroy, annul, make void, interrupt,
“sacramenti religionem,” Liv. 28, 27: “reverentiam sacramenti,” Tac. H. 1, 12
“constat, agnascendo rumpi testamentum,” is made void,
“sacra,” Verg. A. 8, 110: “carmina,” Tib. 2, 3, 20: “novissima verba,” Ov. A. A. 1, 539:

Carmen

I.a tune, song; poem, verse; an oracular response, a prophecy; a form of incantation (cf.: cano, cantus, and canto).

I. In gen., a tune, song, air, lay, strain, note, sound, both vocal and instrumental
cantus; cf. “also versus, numeri, modi): carmen tuba ista peregit ( = sonus),” Enn. Ann. 508 Vahl.: “carmine vocali clarus citharāque Philammon,”
“barbaricum,” id. M. 11, 163.—With allusion to playing on the cithara:
5. A magic formula, an incantation: MALVM, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 17; cf. “Fragm. XII. Tab. 8, 1, a. ap. Wordsw. Fragm. and Spec. p. 260: polleantne aliquid verba et incantamenta carminum,”
carmina vel caelo possunt deducere lunam; “Carminibus Circe socios mutavit Ulixi,”

Carmen is the mark of CIRCE the holy harlot.
Circē , Kirkē, the daughter of the Sun and of Perse or Perseis, sister of Æetes, a sea-nymph, distinguished for her magic arts, whose abode, after her flight from Colchis, was said to be in the region of the promontory of Circeii, in Latium,
“gramen,” i. e. magical, poisoning, Prop. 2, 1, 53:

grāmen , “prostrati in gramine molli,”

prō-sterno , profligo, provolvo).
1. To throw to the ground, to overthrow, subvert, ruin, destroy, carminum studium,” Tac. Or 11: se prosternere, to demean or debase one's self, Cic. Par. 1, 14: “prostrata est Philisthaea omnis,” Vulg. Isa. 14, 31.—
2. To prostitute, Suet. Caes. 2; id. Tib. 35; id. Calig. 24;

Isaiah 14:29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken:
            for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
Isaiah 14:30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety:
         and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
Isaiah 14:31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved:
        for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times

mollis , e, adj. Gr. malakos, amalos, mōlus; cf. blēkhros, perh. Lat. mulier (mollior), I.easily movable, pliant, flexible, supple; soft, tender, delicate, gentle, mild, pleasant
A. Tender, delicate, susceptible: “mollibus annis,” in tender youth,
2. In a bad sense, soft, effeminate, unmanly, weak (syn. effeminatus): “philosophus tam mollis, tam languidus, tam enervatus,” Cic. de Or. 1, 52, 226: “Sabaei,” Verg. G. 1, 57: “viri molles, i. e. pathici,” Liv. 33, 28; Sen. Ep. 87: “disciplina,” effeminate, Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 37: “delicatior ... molliorque ratio,”

And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings,
and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink,
and rose up to play. Ex.32:6

Zep 3:8 Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the Lord,
        until the day that I rise up to the prey:
        for my determination is to gather the nations,
        that I may assemble the kingdoms,

to pour upon them mine indignation,
even all my fierce anger:
for all the earth shall be devoured with the FIRE of my jealousy.

The baptism of FIRE was for the Viper race who were not permitted to be baptized in whater when the WIND (not spirit) separated the grain from the chaff.

Zep 3:9 For then will
        I turn to the people a pure [holy] language,
        that they may all call upon the name of the Lord,
        to serve him with one consent.

Zep 3:10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia [Egypt] my suppliants,
        even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.

Zep 3:11 In that day shalt thou
        not be ashamed for all thy doings,
        wherein thou hast transgressed against me:

        for then I will take away out of the midst of thee
        them that rejoice in thy pride,  sŭperbĭa
        and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.

magnĭlŏquus , a, um, adj. magnusloquor,

I.that speaks in a lofty style, sublime: Homerus, Stat. S. 5, 3, 62.—

II. In a bad sense, that speaks in a pompous style, magniloquent, vaunting, boastful: sapientes

săpĭo  high-minded, proud, claiming inspiration like and sophos], sophos , ē, on, A.skilled in any handicraft or art, clever,
Margites Fr.2; but in this sense mostly of poets and musicians Pi.O.1.9, P.1.42, 3.113; en kithara

H5947 ‛allı̂yz al-leez' From H5937 ; exultant:—joyous, (that) rejoice (-ing).
H5937 ‛âlaz aw-laz' A primitive root; to jump for joy, that is, exult:—be joyful, rejoice, triumph.

Aliyz (h5947) al-leez'; from 5937; exultant: - joyous, (that) rejoice (-ing).

Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. Is.22:2

Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. Is.23:7
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. Is.24:8
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: Is.32:13

Alez (h5938) aw-laze'; from 5937; exultant: - that rejoiceth.

Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. Is.5:14

Remember that the eunuch had no reason to be REJOICING until after he had CONFESSED and been BAPTIZED. 
Christ in Isaiah, John and Paul connect believing to OBEYING. Obeying is IN ADDITION to believing:

Isaiah 53:1 Who hath believed our report?
        and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
John 12:38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord,
        who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?
Romans 10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel.
        For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

PAUL CYCLES THROUGH THE LOGICAL PROCESS AND INCLUDES ALL OF THE "STEPS" IN ONE CHAPTER.

Romans 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus,
        and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

IS IT ETHICAL TO QUOTE THIS VERSE OUT OF CONTEXT.  Thos who believe SHOULD be saved but does not say IS SAVED by belief.  All men and animals are purified by THE FAITH of Jesus Christ.  Paul is speaking to warn the Jews and not to endorse the Baptists that Gentiles are NO ceremonially impure: they are righteous in the sense that they believe in God and do works of righteousness.

Acts 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
Acts 10:35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Acts 10:36 The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)

The inspired message is that a person can WORK RIGHTEOUS ACTS.  Being baptized is a righteous act because it complies to the only instrumental means for OBEYING Jesus as required to be "washed with water INTO the Word" or into the School of Christ.  If you baptized all of Texas and take them to a performance worship service you have NOT let them be admitted to the School of Christ as the Campblls called it.

Romans 10:10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness;
        and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 10:11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Romans 10:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek:
        for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Calling on the NAME is not just a part of Faith.
Scripture tells us HOW to Call on the Name of the Lord requesting A holy spirit or A good conscience.

Acts 2:37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles,
        Men and brethren, what shall we do?

These people obviously already BELIEVED.  Peter should have obeyed Atchley and said: NOTHING.  You should be baptized to ILLUSTRATE your faith which saved you or remitted our sins.  However, if you PREACH the Word by READING the Word you must not call Peter a liar:

Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, AND be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ
        FOR the remission of sins, [Eis never means because of]
        and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Acts 22:15 For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.
Acts 22:16 And now why tarriest thou?
        arise, and be baptized,
        and wash away thy sins,
        calling on the name of the Lord.

1Peter 3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
1Peter 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
1Peter 3:21 The like figure whereunto
        even baptism doth also now save us
        (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh,
        but the request for a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

Romans 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?
         and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?
        and how shall they hear without a preacher?

Study Guide, Part 2 

Bible References: Part 2

Acts 2:38;

Romans 6:3-4;

1 Corinthians 1:13-15;

1 Corinthians 12:13;

Galatians 3:26-27;

Ephesians 4:4-6;

Colossians 2:12;

Titus 3:4-7;

1 Peter 3:21.

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