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To: muawiyah
Luke 3:16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:

John the Baptist certainly understood the baptism he was offering to be different in kind from the one to come.

SD

707 posted on 02/16/2006 1:38:06 PM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
Yes, SD, you stepped right into the middle of it. You do know the Sabean Mandeans (John the Baptist's followers) still exist in Iraq.

Well, maybe you didn't know that. Anyway, take a look at what you just posted ~ "Baptism with the Holy Ghost and with fire".

My cousins who belong to various "Apostolic" and "Charismatic" churches say that has real meaning, and its only after you've been baptised by water by being immersed "backwards" three times, and then receiving the Spirit in church, that you've really been baptised. Some of my inlaws who are Roman Catholic, but also Charismatic, tend to read the same parts of the Gospels the same way as the Apostolic Charismatics too, and to the same effect, but they hold off on that full immersion thing!

And NO, none of them handle snakes in church ~ they think that derives from a misreading of the Scriptures ~ not sure, though, that they draw the line at drinking poisons ~ not gonna' ask either.

712 posted on 02/16/2006 1:52:37 PM PST by muawiyah (-)
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