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Originally Posted by mfblume
Amen. God does many wonderful things beyond the sight of man in such things like baptism. Col 2:11-12 says there is an operation God performs in baptism that is not done with human hands, while human hands baptize. In other words, the real work is not the preacher baptizing the person, but the faith in the obedient one being baptized causes God to operate and cut away the body of the sins of the flesh. That is why baptism is a spiritual circumcision. But when spiritual issues are in focus, many cannot fathom them, so they do not see any spiritual value in water baptism. |
In other words... what it is stating is that the cleansing going on is not a physical cleansing but a spiritual one?
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