{"id":20518,"date":"2020-03-01T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=20518"},"modified":"2020-03-01T09:08:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T15:08:39","slug":"isnt-acts-238-under-the-old-covenant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/isnt-acts-238-under-the-old-covenant\/","title":{"rendered":"Isn&#8217;t Acts 2:38 under the Old Covenant?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I have a question for you. Isn&#8217;t Acts 2:38 still under the Old Covenant? I notice that everyone saved after Acts 2:38 was told to just believe. Acts 2:38 was intended for those Jews who were under the Old Covenant and it is the last we see of water baptism until the New Covenant begins.<\/p>\nThank you.\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>The Old Covenant ended with Jesus&#8217; death on the cross (Colossians 2:13-14). Acts 2:38 takes place after Jesus&#8217; death. In fact, a portion of Peter&#8217;s lesson, just prior to this, was to charge those present with having a hand in the death of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Baptism is mentioned over eighty times in the New Testament. Acts 2:38 is the first time it is mentioned after Jesus&#8217; death, but it certainly is not the last time. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/examples-of-conversion\/\">Notes on Examples of Conversion<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Hello, I have a question for you. Isn&#8217;t Acts 2:38 still under the Old Covenant? I notice that everyone saved after Acts 2:38 was told to just believe. Acts 2:38 was intended for those Jews who were under the Old Covenant and it is the last we see of water baptism until the New&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[52,115],"class_list":["post-20518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-baptism","tag-old-law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20640,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/if-a-person-isnt-baptized-does-that-mean-theyve-never-been-forgiven-of-any-sin\/","url_meta":{"origin":20518,"position":0},"title":"If a person isn&#8217;t baptized, does that mean they&#8217;ve never been forgiven of any sin?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"October 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: If a person isn't baptized, does that mean that they've never been forgiven of any sin they've ever committed? Answer: \"Then Peter said to them, \"Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":85724,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/do-you-need-to-be-baptized-again-after-falling-away-and-returning\/","url_meta":{"origin":20518,"position":1},"title":"Do you need to be baptized again after falling away and returning?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 18, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I trusted Christ as my Savior when I was a teenager, but I wasn't baptized. Then I read Mark 16 and was scared, so I got baptized at a Pentecostal Church. However, they taught that baptism didn't save, and I wasn't sure if it did when I was baptized.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":62316,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/on-infant-baptism\/","url_meta":{"origin":20518,"position":2},"title":"On Infant Baptism","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"August 24, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"by Terry Wane Benton An Orthodox Church member writes: \"Infant baptism is the new circumcision. We find its parallel to circumcision in the Old Covenant. Infants were circumcised as a sign of being part of the Old Covenant so infants should be baptized as a sign of being part of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":21273,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/was-johns-baptism-able-to-save-people\/","url_meta":{"origin":20518,"position":3},"title":"Was John&#8217;s baptism able to save people?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"April 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Good morning sir, I have been reading about the baptism of John and how he came to make a way for Jesus to come to be accepted, but I am confused about whether his baptism was able to save people before Jesus' baptism in Acts 2:38. If someone baptized\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":88379,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/was-there-something-else-i-could-have-said\/","url_meta":{"origin":20518,"position":4},"title":"Was there something else I could have said?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"July 3, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I had a debate with someone about Colossians 2:11-12, specifically regarding how it was interpreted as referring to water baptism and that water baptism was a work of God. 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