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Re: Official Stance of UPC?
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Originally Posted by acerrak
while i agree we should all be baptized. I do not for see water baptism being the sign of the covenant for the new testament. That is The holy Spirit.
The Promise of God. Every one who is a child of God will have the spirit of God.
and you shall recieve the promise. So if he was using this to explain the covenant I definatly would have went more to explain the Spirtual side than water baptism.
But again i still wasnt disprooved by any commentary that the word baptism equates to being with water, when it has many references with in the context of scriptures.
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I thought everyone could easily see that baptism in 1 Cor 10 described as being into Moses is correspondent to Christian water baptism. The entire context shows they corresponded in experience to what we do. What else is Paul referring to as the counterpart for Christian water baptism in mentioning Israel's baptism? The commentary just affirms the plainness and obviousness of it all.
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