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Re: Praxeas & Company (Thief Saved?/Baptism Essent
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Originally Posted by pelathais
hmmm... John's teaching continued on, Apollos knew "only the baptism of John" as did the disciples in Ephesus ( Acts 19). Yet they didn't know that John's teaching involved baptism? And they continued the teachings of John the Baptist but didn't baptize their children or converts? Seems highly unlikely given the importance tha John placed upon baptism.
I think that only an overly rigid reliance upon both Dispensationalism and the so-called "Water & Spirit" teaching would cause someone to say that no one had been baptized under the baptism of John in the 20 some years between his death and Paul's visit to Ephesus in Acts 19; especially given the emphasis that the text itself places upon John's baptism being an important topic of the conversation. |
John not only spoke of the one who was to come but God revealed to John that his cousin, Jesus, was the one who was to come. Why didn't the disciples of John make this known?
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