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AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 3:6 and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins. |
Subject: being baptized |
Bible Note: Ken, My point is that Paul was not "baptized in water as a Jew", but rather that like even Gentile belivers he was "baptized into Christ" (Romans 6). Baptism into Christ is a Christian rite, not a Jewish. Ask any Jew. There are many Jewish antecedents to Christian practices, but they are peculiarly Christian in their meaning and purpose in the Christian context. Thay all relate to Christ, whom non-believing Jews then and now reject along with the Christian rites regardless of their Jewish antecedents. baptism is the circumcision of Christ". Phil 3:3 for we are the true circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh, Col 2:11 and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ; Col 2:12 having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. Col 2:13 When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, Baptsim is the "working of God". Emmaus |