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Originally Posted by Pilgrim  Very simply, I believe that all of those who were baptized on the day of Pentecost were professing believers, and v. 42 states that this same group celebrated the Lord's Supper together. |
By the same reasoning, may we conclude there were no women and children in the Desert? I just don't see this Chris.
Why
must the verse that speaks about the activity of those present that day preclude any notion that they actually went home and told others in their household?
In fact, by your reasoning, if a single woman was not present that day, she couldn't have become a believer by the report of her husband. Assume the man comes home and tells his wife (who wasn't there that day) the news of Christ's resurrection. Since you insist that
only the population at Pentecost that day were those that continued steadfastly in the Apostle's doctrine and the breaking of the bread, then there were absolutely no wives at home that day who heard the report from their husbands and later became believers.
Is this your assertion?