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To: coconutt2000
Scripture says nothing about John baptizing in a cave nor that there was any footwashing/annointing before nor after a baptism.

Perhaps this is a forerunner of the catacombs.

That makes more sense, alongside the scriptures.

5 posted on 08/16/2004 9:19:10 AM PDT by knarf (A place where anyone can learn anything ... especially that which promotes clear thinking.)
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To: knarf

**Scripture says nothing about John baptizing in a cave nor that there was any footwashing/annointing before nor after a baptism.**

In Catholic Baptism there is an annointing after the Baptism.


39 posted on 08/16/2004 10:16:17 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: knarf
Perhaps this is a forerunner of the catacombs.

Catacombs are cemetaries.

115 posted on 08/16/2004 11:53:08 AM PDT by Romulus ("Que la Terreur soit a l'ordre du jour.")
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To: knarf
" Scripture says nothing about John baptizing in a cave nor that there was any footwashing/annointing before nor after a baptism."

Then again it's logical that John's baptism was an extention of the existing practices of Jewish baptism (Yes, Jews did and do have "baptism," as a ritual cleansing, though the term "baptism" is avoided).

120 posted on 08/16/2004 11:57:36 AM PDT by cookcounty ("NIXON sent me to Vietnam!!!" --JfK, lying about his 1968 arrival in-country UNDER PRESIDENT LBJ.)
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To: knarf

With people like this, Scripture isn't as important as the story they can sell now. It will be sold as John the Baptist's cave and before you know it, people will be merchandising it as if it were something major. Idiots revere the creation more than the creator and are too spiritually dumb to realize it or care.


136 posted on 08/16/2004 12:12:31 PM PDT by Havoc (.)
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