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To: jkl1122; adiaireton8

Have you ever read the Didache? It was written around the year 90 AD and contains some of the the earliest Christian instructions.

Here is the chapter on Baptism:

Chapter 7. Concerning Baptism. And concerning baptism, baptize this way: Having first said all these things, baptize into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in living water. But if you have no living water, baptize into other water; and if you cannot do so in cold water, do so in warm. But if you have neither, pour out water three times upon the head into the name of Father and Son and Holy Spirit. But before the baptism let the baptizer fast, and the baptized, and whoever else can; but you shall order the baptized to fast one or two days before.


http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/didache-roberts.html


90 posted on 11/16/2006 10:01:19 AM PST by Nihil Obstat (viva il papa - be not afraid)
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To: Nihil Obstat

This disagrees with the clear teaching of the Bible.


96 posted on 11/16/2006 10:48:14 AM PST by jkl1122
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