Actually the analogy is that of a jigsaw puzzle. You have all the pieces but you need the original completed picture, the key to solve the puzzle.
Before baptism, Scripture is hidden.
2 Corinthians 3:7-18
7But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading
as it was,
8how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory?
9For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.
10For indeed what had glory, in this case has no glory because of the glory that surpasses
it. 11For if that which fades away
was with glory, much more that which remains
is in glory.
12Therefore having such a hope, we use great boldness in
our speech,
13and
are not like Moses,
who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away.
14But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ.
15But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart;
16but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty.
18But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.
After, it just pops out
Act's 17:1-7
1It happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the upper country and came to Ephesus, and found some disciples.
2He said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they
said to him, “No, we have not even heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.”
3And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” And they said, “Into John’s baptism.”
4Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in Him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”
5When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
6And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they
beganspeaking with tongues and prophesying.
7There were in all about twelve men.
I wish Paul were here to explain the process and the basis, but I'll try to fill in, although those are pretty big shoes.
I'll tell you how I did it.
Why I did it.
How I checked it.
How YOU can check it.
It's not too difficult, or like what they say in Meixien, "Too difficult to describe, too far to show".
Rather:
Chinese Proverb: "If you don't scale the mountain, you can't view the plain."
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If you don't scale the mountain, you can't view the plain.
