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All I know, Is a Lutheran Pastor told me, b/c i was not baptised I was going to hell, and had *NM* StarrBecca Send a noteboard - 11/06/2011 03:44:38 PM
This is something that started bugging me after a random association yesterday. John the Baptist. On whose authority was he baptising people? No one had died for people's sins yet. From what I understand baptism functions in connection with that. Have I misunderstood something?
no soul. Ergo I am Soul less. Should I check on e-bay? perhaps?
And why did Jesus need to be baptised?
I am genuinely curious about the doctrinal reasoning here. It has been a while since I studied these things and for the life of me I cannot remember anything about it. I know that there were several Jewish groups that practised baptism at the time, but I do not know the intra-Christian reasoning for this event.
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I don't follow. - 10/06/2011 11:08:07 AM 468 Views
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I took a holy dip into the Ganges - 10/06/2011 11:48:26 AM 558 Views
Re: I took a holy dip into the Ganges - 10/06/2011 11:54:17 AM 617 Views
He dances and dips in The Ganges- Very Nice. *NM* - 11/06/2011 02:15:41 AM 208 Views
Three dips - that's the ceremony. - 11/06/2011 02:35:43 AM 423 Views
Early Christians and Jews were obsessed with purity - 10/06/2011 12:56:58 PM 594 Views
Oh, I know about the historical/academic/anthropological reason - 10/06/2011 01:04:43 PM 531 Views
I misunderstood, lets try again - 10/06/2011 01:44:43 PM 610 Views
Huh. *NM* - 10/06/2011 02:06:58 PM 251 Views
A first responce - 10/06/2011 02:09:32 PM 657 Views
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Do you want a theological answer or a historical one? - 10/06/2011 03:16:44 PM 626 Views
The theological. I already had a fairly good idea of the historical - 10/06/2011 03:18:51 PM 499 Views
My favorite fact about baptism is that is REQUIRES water... but it can be ANY water - 10/06/2011 04:31:12 PM 592 Views
That is absurd. - 10/06/2011 08:37:13 PM 685 Views
It is absurd - 10/06/2011 08:56:19 PM 497 Views
When your post is eviscerated, resorting to "HURR RELIGION IS DUMB" isn't a winning move. - 10/06/2011 10:00:39 PM 616 Views
Psh.You can dress it up with spiritualism and semantics, but the concept boils down to "magic water" - 11/06/2011 03:56:03 AM 440 Views
The point is that it's a symbol. - 11/06/2011 04:45:19 AM 468 Views
I have no problem with water as a symbol - 11/06/2011 04:59:52 AM 538 Views
You are totally missing the point. - 11/06/2011 02:46:08 PM 620 Views
Which again, is something that sounds nice and spiritual, but doesn't actually make any sense - 11/06/2011 03:46:51 PM 586 Views
your problem is you're trying to apply objective logic to religion - 11/06/2011 04:13:01 PM 841 Views
I'm not, exactly. Religion has internal logic. For example, certain things are "unclean" - 11/06/2011 04:40:33 PM 486 Views
Beliefs about holy water are internally logical. - 11/06/2011 07:36:08 PM 528 Views
Shrug. It was on topic. - 11/06/2011 08:06:16 PM 810 Views
Baptism is almost, if not entirely, symbolic. - 11/06/2011 10:23:02 AM 646 Views
Re: Baptism is almost, if not entirely, symbolic. - 11/06/2011 11:51:22 AM 657 Views
All I know, Is a Lutheran Pastor told me, b/c i was not baptised I was going to hell, and had *NM* - 11/06/2011 03:44:38 PM 187 Views
I never thought of it in that way, that is why I like this site *NM* - 12/06/2011 04:26:40 PM 229 Views
Because we are all nuts in our own special ways? *NM* - 12/06/2011 04:36:03 PM 199 Views

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