Corruption of EIS

The corruption of Eis in Acts 2:38 is one way evangelicals attempt to get around Baptism for the remission of sins, of course this is a verse that has long stood in their way.

They have in some cases attempted to make it mean "because of" and in other instances have tried to translate it "with a view toward" something already past. They say you are looking back at salvation past.

Both have been dismissed easily with grammatical lexicons over the years but evangelicals are persistent.

Is there an easy way to tell the verse is not looking back to forgiveness already received? Yes there is. It is very practical and simple. 

Act 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, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 

Repentance is a requirement for salvation and it had not occured yet in this verse. Repentance is actually the focul point of baptism as you subject yourself to Jesus.

Since repentance was still future then remission was still future, the verse isn't looking back but forward to something not yet fulfilled.

This is especially relavent among those who say "repentance" and "For"  are the same tense, then if repentance is future then "For - eis" must be looking forward also.

You would be a hypocrite to say "for-eis" looks back but repentance which is the same tense looks forward. You can't use both arguments in the same breath without lying drammatically. Repent here is clearly future, not looking back.

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Act 11:18  When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life. 

Remission occurs when repentance has been fulfilled. Not repentance to moral commands from the Law of Moses, but repentance to faith commands from Christ.

Both John's baptism and Christian baptism are toward repentance, one is repentance directed to the law, the other toward Christ.

Not only is their argument grammatically untennable, it is contextually untennable. It simply isn't true.

Another related verse explaining this context 

Act 2:40  And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. 

If already saved, why keep telling them to save themselves? From start to finish the context of Acts 2:38-40, it is looking forward to remission still needing to be fulfilled.