“Baptism means everything which water means”. We sometimes think, most of us being linear thinkers, that baptism does primarily one thing. Baptism = x. We think in the same way about the Lord’s Supper, that it means only one thing. But since Christians have at least three different names for the sacrament of the Lord’s […]
Tag: John the Baptist
John the Baptist Had a Question
Last week I wrote, that John the Baptist’s expectation of the Messiah– axes, winnowing forks, and fire– didn’t fit well with what Jesus actually did. “Evidently even the prophets didn’t fully understand the nature and message of Jesus. Jesus was not the Messiah most people were expecting.” And “It is interesting that Matthew does not […]
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