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I have got to go to Israel one of these days! I agree, the tomb would have needed to be opened in order to prove that Jesus wasn't...

You don't need to read minds. Baptism was an extremely well known thing. There hadn't ever been any sort of baptism that wasn't...

No it isn't! Everyone knew what baptism was and knew it involved water. If Paul had meant something else, he would have said so. No...

There is no evidence that they were anything else. They received the Holy Spirit via Paul laying hands on them. That and the fact that...

Saying it doesn't make it so. Romans 6:4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised...

The thing that is unusual about it is that no one would read it that way unless they had an reason to do so that was not communicated by...

You know as well as I do that there's a difference. Quoting a passage and just letting the naked verse mean what it seems to say is...