There's no water in that verse...Baptize does not mean water...
As you can see if you believe the verse, 'calling on His name' is the baptism...
By calling on His name, you are immersed (baptized) into Jesus...And He, into you...It's a Spiritual baptism, made without hands...A circumcision of the heart...
**There’s no water in that verse...Baptize does not mean water...**
Saul/Paul had already been literally and figuratively brought low by the Lord, even had that brief but shocking converstion with him. Paul believed on the Lord Jesus right then and there. But what said the Lord in closing? “Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be TOLD thee WHAT thou MUST DO.” Acts 9:6
Paul has met the Lord...and there’s something he MUST DO??
Dittos for Cornelius, except for the messenger being an angel in a vision. Some can claim ‘legalism’, but since when is obedience to the Lord, legalism. The avoiding of Acts 2:38, using out of context study habits, would be legalism, imo.
**“And now why do you delay? Arise, and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.” Acts 22:16.**
There are scriptures records that Paul himself baptized almost a dozen souls, Jew and Gentile. When you include the ‘households’, the number may be considerably larger.
The book of Acts is transitional in this sense: If you aren’t born again, and don’t know how to be, you will know how by the time you’ve gotten just a few chapters through it, and thoroughly convinced by the end.
The stumblingblock is the reading of the epistles with the same mindset; that starting into each, one might not be born again, but would see how to be somewhere therein. When, in fact, those letters were written to saints, those sanctified, etc., and need to be read in that context.