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1 | Verses where water alone means baptism? | John 3:5 | EdB | 134533 | ||
Perhaps Mark 16:16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. and Acts 22:16 And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.' will add to to this discussion and clarify things. I also wonder what Philip said to the eunuch in Acts 8:35-38 Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him. [36] Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, "See, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?" [37] Then Philip said, "If you believe with all your heart, you may." And he answered and said, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God." [38] So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him. that made the eunuch so anxious to be baptized that he looked for a puddle of water in the desert. EdB |
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2 | Verses where water alone means baptism? | John 3:5 | DocTrinsograce | 134546 | ||
Hi, brother Ed. As often as I hear the question "is baptism necessary for salvation" I wonder why people aren't asking "is salvation necessary for baptism?" :-) These passages you cite connect water and baptism very clearly. We can be confident that baptism involved the use of water. However, they don't quite fit the bill for what I am seeking. We have frequent mention of baptism without mention of water. We have frequent mention of water without baptism. But we only seem to have this single verse that uses water as a synonymn (or metaphor) for bapitsm. At least, I haven't found another one yet. Thank you for your observations. Tomorrow I'll look at every occurance of hudotos in the New Testament and see if I can dig a similar turn of phrase. (Interesting that at first blush I can't even find a later quote of Christ from John 3.) |
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