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Reading the title of the thread, Luke 11:9-13 is what came to my mind.

Thinking about 1 John 5:6. How did Jesus come? 1. By water = born in the flesh. 2. By blood = in Spirit after his blood was shed on the cross. John 14:18 So, “water and Spirit” in John 3:5 represents Christ. Born of Christ. Another similar possibility: ”Water and Spirit” in Greek...

I have been studying your response, but I keep coming back to this. If the biblical definition of faith includes the conviction, which to me constitutes belief, that the assurance from God is true, then someone who doesn’t have that conviction never satisfies the biblical definition of having...

I still don’t understand. I think your referred to faith as the “gracious gift of knowing”. How can I know something, but not believe it? Also, If faith as defined above in Hebrews 11:1 is both the assurance and the conviction, then I would submit that to have the conviction requires one...

Glad to agree here. Here is the verse again: Hebrews 3:14 ESV For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. Does this also mean that someone who does not hold their original confidence firm to the end never came to share in Christ? How do...

At any point in time I can think of this verse and be assured, because I know that I still believe in Jesus.

It actually says you have become a partaker if you hold the beginning of your confidence steadfast to the end. Not that you continue to be a partaker.

How does Hebrews 3:14 fit in this discussion?

In everything I have ever seen baptism appears in the first half fo the verse. If the semicolon as shown in P72 and Sinaiticus is correct then baptism is actually in the second part of the verse. The verse becomes something like this: and you an antitype now saves; immersion not of flesh, a...

That dot is in Sinaiticus too. Not in Vaticanus.

Found something interesting in P72. P72 has spaces between many words and also some punctuation. It is supposedly a third or fourth century manuscript. In several places you see a dot between words. Looking this up I found out it is equivalent to a semicolon. In 1 Peter 3:21 a dot appears...

Please do. I would appreciate that.

I am trying to learn for exactly the reasons you gave in post #334. Already feel like there is so much that you cannot understand from the English translations.

John’s baptism was in water. Matthew 3:6 ESV and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. ebaptizonto en to lordane potamo = were being immersed in the Jordan River. Jesus’s baptism Mark 1:9 ESV In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was...

Hornetguy Scripture indicates that it wasn’t just a one time occurrence. Acts 10:47 ESV ”Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” In the last half of The verse above Peter indicates that the house Cornelius received the Holy...

Was it water Baptism? Acts 19:5 ESV On hearing this they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. baptized in the name = ebaptisthesan eis to onoma Thayer’s lexicon says that eis is used in conjunction with baptizo to indicate the medium into which immersion occurs. So in this case the...

Hebrews 9:10 is absolutely talking about water baptism. That is how it was referred to in Greek. However, in this verse the Greek word baptismois was translated and not transliterated. It does refer to regulations under the Law of Moses, but the questions remains. Why would Hebrews tell us...

When you read verses like 1 Corinthians 6:11 it certainly sounds like it. 1 Corinthians 6:11 ESV And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. In the phrase “by the Spirit of our...

Let me just say that when I started studying Acts 10:47-48 in Greek I was fascinated by what I found In Thayer’s Lexicon. Acts 10:47-48 ESV ”Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” And he commanded them to be baptized in the...

What are your thought on this verse? Hebrews 9:10 ESV but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation. The Greek word translated washings is baptismois. It comes from baptizo and means washing, dipping, submerging. So...