In Acts 2:38-41 alone we learn that baptism brings ... The larger passage of 1 Peter 3 is very instructive. The Bible often uses natural things as symbols of supernatural ones — for example ...

“Washing” in one verse (with two other common elements) is similar to “water” in the other. Thus, baptism is tied to salvation, in accord with the other verses above. Many other passages ...

are finding ways for their fonts to carry flowing water—"living water," as the Didache and the Bible describe it. Some fonts have two levels: an upper basin, perhaps for the baptism of infants, out of ...

The first letter of Peter mentions the event of the flood, “…in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water. Baptism ...

The Bible contains many ... the crossings were over or through water, which leads naturally to an association of those moments with the rite of Christian baptism. It is common to confuse baptism ...

The community living in Turkana County in Northern Kenya often walk up to 3 hours to the nearest water point ... to the baptism, the year-long mission also planted weekly Bible studies, taught ...