Oh, give me a break!This is called QUIBBLING my friend, and you are quibbling over the Word of God.
This is called taking time out from the discussion to make an issue of your perceptions of me. Let's call it what it is.
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Oh, give me a break!This is called QUIBBLING my friend, and you are quibbling over the Word of God.
Now you're going to label me "hyper-dispensationalist" to quickly dismiss me?Except that Marks wanted to exclude water baptism altogether. That is what the Hyper-Dispensationalists do.
Just so!Even though there are multiple baptisms mentioned in scripture, there is only one baptism that places us into the body of Christ and that is Spirit baptism, not water baptism.
Ephesians 4:5 - One Lord, one faith, one baptism.
1 Corinthians 12:13 - For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.
There is one baptism, my friend, according to Ephesians 4. Now if you think that this passage, while claiming a single baptism, actually means that there is "one of many", then your issue is with the text, not me.an egregious blunder to start with?
Why don't you explain that to us and regardless of what baptism meant to the Jews in Jesus' day and why the Pharisees were so offended at the idea that they should be water baptized, "one baptism" does not mean that only one baptism exists, such as water baptism, but no Spirit baptism or Spirit baptism, but no water baptism etc..Just so!
Does anyone know the origins of water baptism? Does anyone know what it meant to the Jews in Jesus' day? Why the Pharisees were SO offended at the idea that they should be water baptized?
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