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To: Iscool
Every single time some folks see Baptize, they see water

They don't think baptize means "water" but they know that water is used in baptism, as did Philip and the eunuch.

    Acts 8:36-39 Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, "See, [here is] water. What hinders me from being baptized?" So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him. Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing.
Do you deny water was used in the baptism of the eunuch as illustrated in these verses from Acts?

And every time they see water, they think Baptize

That is still silly. When I take a drink of water I don't think of batpism.

Now tell us you don't somehow see Baptize (or WASH) in that verse

I don't see the word batpize or wash in that verse, but the phrase "born of water" can legitimately understood to be a reference to baptism as Philip and the eunuch understood baptism in the verses above.

163 posted on 09/26/2007 10:40:24 AM PDT by Titanites
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To: Iscool

The phrase “born of water” should have been “born of water and of the Spirit” in my post above.


164 posted on 09/26/2007 11:10:11 AM PDT by Titanites
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