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To: jkl1122

Nope. The reason baptizo is used is because it includes the idea of wash and cleanse.

I have washed many a dish without ever immersing it. I hold it under the faucet and let the running water clean it off.

The same would work with hands under a pitcher of poured water....or a dish. Lots of times just the outside was ritually cleansed.


39 posted on 12/19/2006 7:34:33 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it! Supporting our troops means praying for them to WIN!)
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To: xzins
I have washed many a dish without ever immersing it. I hold it under the faucet and let the running water clean it off.

Oh, so you held them under pouring water until they got thoroughly wet and clean. And then you took them out of the pouring water, right? You didn't just "sprinkle" some water on them, did you? If you did, then they would not be clean, and your wife would make you baptize them again the right way.

49 posted on 12/20/2006 3:03:22 AM PST by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: xzins; jkl1122
"I have washed many a dish without ever immersing it. I hold it under the faucet and let the running water clean it off."

And which districts in first century Jerusalem had such faucets?

66 posted on 12/22/2006 8:09:56 PM PST by editor-surveyor
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