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1 | BAPTISIM OF THE DEAD | NT general Archive 1 | PYLE | 704 | ||
DOES THE REFRENCE TO BAPTISIM OF THE DEAD IN ICOR15:29 MEAN THAT WE CAN BE BAPTIZED ON BEHALF OF OUR DEAD LOVED ONES. | ||||||
2 | BAPTISIM OF THE DEAD | NT general Archive 1 | stobor | 778 | ||
In reading the entire chapter, we see that Paul is refuting arguments against Jesus' resurrection; in particular the argument that Jesus could not have been raised from the dead because no one is raised from the dead. See for example verse 15: "Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised." Paul does not recommend being baptized for the dead; he merely points out that some people (some other people, "they" not "we") do so. His point is that those who practice baptism for the dead have implicitly conceded the Christians' point that the dead are raised. I'm not sure how widespread this practice (baptism for the dead) was, but certainly baptism in general seems to have been popular in first century Judea. If baptism for the dead was widely accepted, then Paul has made a telling point against those who reject any possibility of resurrection. |
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