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Mizpeh must every verse speaking of baptism always refer to water baptism only or exclusively ....?
Where do you get this notion that water baptism activates the Spirit to regeneration?
John the Baptist was clear that what made Jesus baptism distinctive from his own baptism was not water ... but a baptism from above ... or Spiritual New Birth and immersion.
The efficacy is in the Spirit of Life....
31I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel." 32Then John gave this testimony: "I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him. 33I would not have known him, except that the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is he who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.' 34I have seen and I testify that this is the Son of God."
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