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Questions tagged [baptism]

Questions about texts relating to the baptism, including queries around practice or teaching as far as they relate to a specific text.

Baptism is a form of ritual purification effected by pouring or submerging an individual in water. The ritual does occur in Judaism and many other faith traditions, but in reference to biblical texts is typically associated with the Christian ritual.

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When Jesus died, did the Father and the Holy Spirit die with Him? At the resurrection did all three rise? Why don't we ask ourselves this question?

Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the…
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Where was the water to baptize the Ethiopian eunuch?

The book of Acts recounts the baptism of the Ethiopian eunuch following a revival in Samaria with Philip the evangelist. Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (Acts…
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