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To: CynicalBear
The whole phrase “born of water” is only referring to “born of Jesus word” not physical baptism.

Do you have this verse in your Bible?

1 Peter 3:20 who had once been disobedient while God patiently waited in the days of Noah during the building of the ark, in which a few persons, eight in all, were saved through water.

21 This prefigured baptism, which saves you now. It is not a removal of dirt from the body but an appeal to God 7 for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

22 who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him.

60 posted on 10/25/2010 11:16:53 AM PDT by verga (I am not an apologist, I just play one on Television)
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To: verga

Of course it does.

1 Peter 3:
20Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

21The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

Notice the “by the resurrection of Jesus Christ”. It’s the resurrection of Jesus that saves us, not the baptism. The figure (outward symbol) is Baptism. It is not what saves us, nor is it any part of what saves us. The word of God will save and destroy just as the water both saved Noah and destroyed all others on earth. Again, the water in Noah’s time was symbolic of the word of God.


78 posted on 10/25/2010 11:56:12 AM PDT by CynicalBear
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