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To: Iscool
.John baptized with water...Jesus did not

Brother, a little caution is in order here. There is good reason to believe that the Disciples' Baptism, a baptism of immersion of water, was not John's baptism unto repentance, but was employed the same way as John's. My opinion is that Jesus did baptize at least the Twelve into His especially chosen closest group of students (Jn. 3:22), and maybe a few more before His ministry expanded and the number of secondary applying to be disciples became unmanageable by only one person.

He did teach at least the Twelve Disciples to baptize other followers, using immersion as the vehicle of induction into commitment to a life of instruction (Jn. 4:1-2). Moreover, He baptizes not only in The Spirit (Pentecost, Cornelius). The symbol of fire is by some denominations connected with Spirit baptism, thinking that it hints of zealousness, but that is wrong. He also will baptize with fire, as the creator of the Lake of Fire; and the Devil, his angels, and unsaved humans will be its subjects.

You might want to study a dissertation on the seven baptisms that one earlier post of mine links to, where you can get a little better grasp of the subject before committing your opinions on it to writing.

Just a FRiendly suggestion.

323 posted on 10/12/2015 9:02:45 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: imardmd1
You might want to study a dissertation on the seven baptisms that one earlier post of mine links to, where you can get a little better grasp of the subject before committing your opinions on it to writing.

I wasn't giving my opinions on the 7 baptisms...I was showing that there is biblically more than one baptism and they all do not include water or require water as the Catholic teaches...

Eph 4:5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

According to Catholics 'that' baptism (and all baptisms) is/are water because every time the word baptism is used in the scripture it means getting wet...There is only one baptism and that requires a Catholic priest who then gets someone wet...

329 posted on 10/13/2015 10:16:03 AM PDT by Iscool (Izlam and radical Izlam are different the same way a wolf and a wolf in sheeps clothing are differen)
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