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This article needs a standard intro written for it, a "'''Baptism''' is..." sort of thing. {{User:ASDamick/sig}} 20:48, November 24, 2005 (CST)
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Reading the articles on "''Baptism''" and "''Church''"provided by "''Easton's Bible Dictionary''", included in the free ''Theophilos'' software, I came across something interesting. This confirmed what I had been reading elsewhere, namely on the [http://www.goarch.org/en/ourfaith/articles/article7067.asp G.O.Arch. site], and on [http://www.davidschneider.us/public/baptism.html Mr. David Schneider's site]. Here are some lines:
:"''A significant parallel exists between Jewish proselyte baptism (when pagans were converted to Judaism) and early Christian baptism. The contacts between early Christian baptism and proselyte baptism, with the similarities in terminology, interpretation, symbolism, and the rite itself, are especially notable. '''What is of greatest interest, however, is that the baptism of the early Church followed that of proselyte baptism, in which children and infants were baptized with the convert's family'''. This is especially significant when one realizes that the very early Church was made up primarily of converted Jews''".
The expression used in "''Easton's''" was actually a little bit stronger ... it went something like: "''the proselyte was not accepted into baptism until he brought his children along with him''".
On a Romanian Baptist site I found it written in an article that the Jews used 3 immersions in baptism, because that's how many times the word ''mikvah'' occured in the Torah (or was it the whole TaNaKh? -- I'm not sure). [[User:Luci83ro|Luci83ro]] 16:48, July 23, 2006 (CDT)
