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To: Uncle Chip

***Note that it is in the margin which means that the majority of the translators of that version did not agree with it.***

But enough translators DID agree with it (sprinkle) so it could not be completely ignored and was put in the margin as an alternate meaning.

****It was a ritual "baptizing" [dipping, plunging, immersing, dunking, pouring on of enough water to get them thoroughly wet.]****

Yet I have shown you in Matthew how Jesus used this ritual cleansing as a parable of their uncleanliness because they only wet the OUTSIDE of the pot and not the inside. Definitly not a complete immersion. And in Mark the word "baptize" is used for the same ritual.

I must also point out that those whom the first Apostles taught were sprinkling, pouring and immersing after the deaths of the first Apostles.


87 posted on 12/24/2006 8:53:27 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (When someone burns a cross on your lawn the best firehose is an AK-47.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

You are grasping at straws. Pretty soon you will have enough for another straw man.


89 posted on 12/24/2006 10:16:18 AM PST by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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