@Peterlag
Paul is connecting these Gentile converts to their Israelite fathers by intricate symbology. The wilderness church had at least as many spiritual and providential blessings as Corinth. Immersion under the cloud and in the Sea was a figurative baptism to Moses, their Christ. Paul is lining up various benefits Israel had to show them comparable to the Corinthians. Moses was a type of Jesus Christ, for he was the mediator of the old covenant (Galatians 3:19). And the Israelites put their trust in him and the LORD by going down into the Red Sea. Let all those who contend for sprinkling or pouring consider the location of our “fathers.” These Israelites, having been saved out of Egypt, went down under the water to enter their rest. They were already under the blood, for the death angel passed over them and not the Egyptians.
The burden of poof is on you to prove that baptism is no longer essential, which you can never prove. Are you part of the Islamic faith that do not practice water baptism?
I may come back and add more, but for now I have been called to be somewhere a few miles away, so I must stop for now.
New Testament water baptism is not a carry over from part of the Levitical law. That you can never prove. The closet point of connection with NT Baptism and the OT, is to found in 1st Corinthians 10, and we would not have know this except by Paul who by the Spirit of God's revelation to him, as he compared the church at Corinth with Israel of old.Water baptism is a carryover from part of the Levitical Law. There are many examples of people in the Old Testament who would wash themselves with water as a final step to being clean. Water baptism was an outward sign of washing, and then you would be clean to God. Baptism in water, and the need to be circumcised passed away with the coming of Pentecost, as did the other Levitical Laws.
1st Corinthians 10:1
“Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;"Paul is connecting these Gentile converts to their Israelite fathers by intricate symbology. The wilderness church had at least as many spiritual and providential blessings as Corinth. Immersion under the cloud and in the Sea was a figurative baptism to Moses, their Christ. Paul is lining up various benefits Israel had to show them comparable to the Corinthians. Moses was a type of Jesus Christ, for he was the mediator of the old covenant (Galatians 3:19). And the Israelites put their trust in him and the LORD by going down into the Red Sea. Let all those who contend for sprinkling or pouring consider the location of our “fathers.” These Israelites, having been saved out of Egypt, went down under the water to enter their rest. They were already under the blood, for the death angel passed over them and not the Egyptians.
Do not link water baptism with circumcision which is indeed an OT practice that served its purpose, and truly had no essential spiritual value. Yet, water baptism is a NT doctrine that must be practice as long as the church is here preaching the gospel and men/women are being converted to the truth, then they are commanded to commit their life in obedience to what they profess to believe, by giving God an answer of what they profess to believe, by being baptized in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost, even in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, which baptism, puts the one being baptized into the religion/faith/teachings, etc. of Jesus Christ, without baptism, a person has not proved that he truly believes.Baptism in water, and the need to be circumcised passed away with the coming of Pentecost, as did the other Levitical Laws.
The burden of poof is on you to prove that baptism is no longer essential, which you can never prove. Are you part of the Islamic faith that do not practice water baptism?
I may come back and add more, but for now I have been called to be somewhere a few miles away, so I must stop for now.