BAPTISM

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Noose

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The word of God is God, trying to compare yourself with God is blasphemy. The words that come out of your mouth are fake news. You read the scriptures but they are like a parable to you, fulfilling what Isaiah said ".. ever seeing but never perceiving, ever hearing but never understanding.."

This is what John had to say:

Mark 1: 7And this was his message: “After me comes the one more powerful than I, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. 8I baptize you with[SUP]e[/SUP] water, but he will baptize you with[SUP]f[/SUP] the Holy Spirit.”

Jesus never baptized anyone with water because water was only symbolic of the spirit. Water is always a symbol of the Holy spirit.

John 4:10Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”11“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”13Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

Go back to Acts 10 and read it in full. Peter is first given the vision which shows that under the new covenant, gentiles and Jews are the same.

Acts 10:28He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean. 29So when I was sent for, I came without raising any objection. May I ask why you sent for me?”

It is clear from the above verse that Peter and the Jews around him had a problem with treating gentiles as being different from them (Jews). It is also safe to conclude that it is possible that the Jews around Peter forbade him from administering to the gentiles the practices which they thought was reserved for Jews only. That the reason Peter asked them " 47“Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.”


I did not finish what i was about to say, sorry.

Peter and the Jews around him had issues with the way they were treating gentiles and God was teaching them something. The reason God gave Peter the vision of clean and unclean animals. Peter asked the Jews rhetorically if they now forbade gentiles from getting water baptism. Notice how they are being referred to us circumcised Jews- they thought themselves as being superior. The water baptism was not that important but it was used to break that thought that some things are reserved for Jews.