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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Corinthian Religion and Baptism for the Dead (1 Corinthians 15:29): Insights from Archaeology and Anthropology
Richard E. DeMaris
Journal of Biblical Literature
Vol. 114, No. 4 (Winter, 1995), pp. 661-682
Published by: The Society of Biblical Literature
DOI: 10.2307/3266480
Corinthian Religion and Baptism for the Dead (1 Corinthians 15:29): Insights from Archaeology and Anthropology on JSTOR

Baptism for the dead was by the mystery religions not by Christians.

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"The word "water" was often used by the Jewssymbolically, especially in expressing grief, i.e., tears (Jer. ix. 1, 18; Ps. cxix. 136). A misfortune of great magnitude, the full extent of which it seemed impossible to fathom, was likened to water (Lam. iii. 54; Ps. lxix. 2, cxxiv. 4-5), while the constant flow and unrest of water were symbolic of numerous descendants (Num. xxiv. 7). The forgiveness of sins and their complete remission were typified by sprinkling with clean water (Ezek. xxxvi. 25); and in Jer. ii. 13 God is compared to a fountain of living waters. It was customary in the Talmudic period, moreover, to use "water" symbolically for the divine teachings (see Mek., Beshallaḥ, Wayassa', 1); so that in several passages the term "water" is used without any amplification whatever (comp. Ḥag. 3a; B. M. 84b; Hor. 14a; Ab. i. 2)." WATER - JewishEncyclopedia.com

Ezekiel 36:25-26 Amplified Bible (AMP)
25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your uncleanness and from all your idols. 26 Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

The text above clearly describes being born again in the Holy Spirit.

in contrast for your edification,

Ezekiel 36:26
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

Zechariah 7:12
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts.

Mark 3:5
And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.

Mark 16:14
Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.

Matthew 19:8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

Romans 2:5
But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

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Numbers 8:5-7 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

5 The Lord said to Moses, 6 “Separate the Levites from the other Israelites. Make these Levites clean. 7 This is what you should do to make them clean: Sprinkle the special water from the sin offering on them. This water will make them clean. Then they must shave their bodies and wash their clothes. This will make their bodies clean.

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I already gave those which consisted of Church Fathers, Archaeology and Ancient Texts related to the Bible. Those are part the short chapter I posted.

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Ezekiel is scripture and I gave many historical sources.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Baptism - New Advent



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The minister of this sacrament is the priest, to whom it belongs to baptize, ...... yet in practice it is quite possible that the sprinkled water may not touch the skin.


CHURCH FATHERS: On Baptism (Tertullian) - New Advent




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Let no one say, Why then, are we, pray, baptized with the very waters which then ... Moreover, by carrying water around, and sprinkling it, they everywhere ...


Now washing may be done with water not only by immersion, but also by sprinkling or pouring. And, therefore, although it is safer to baptize by immersion, ...


CHURCH FATHERS: On Baptism, Book VI (Augustine) - New Advent



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But, as it has been said, it makes no difference to the holiness of baptism how much worse .... any difference in the efficacy of baptism by sprinkling or by immersion, "In this matter," he says, ...... <http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/14086.htm>.


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For these things, and all that follow from them, the grace of Baptism secures and conveys to us. ..... And I will sprinkleclean water upon you, and you shall be cleansed: from all your filthiness, .... <http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2910.htm>.


CHURCH FATHERS: Epistle 75 (Cyprian of Carthage) - New Advent


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To Magnus, on Baptizing the Novatians, and Those Who Obtain Grace on a ... that that is a True Baptism Wherein One is Baptized by Sprinkling on a Sick-Bed, ...


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Is it essential that someone should raise the person baptizedfrom the sacred ... dipped or sprinkled the man together, they should be punished for baptizing in ...


CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Holy Water - New Advent

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On Merit and the Forgiveness of Sins, and the Baptism of Infants (Book III) ...... a sprinkling of holiness arising out of the close ties of married life and children.

Believer's baptism is the Christian practice of baptism as this is understood by many ... Defenders of infant baptism have attempted to trace the practice to the New ..... of a body of water) over affusion (in which water or holy water is sprinkledor poured over the baptisand). .... Fathers, New advent . ... Bible.org". bible.org.

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CHURCH FATHERS: Epistle 75 (Cyprian of Carthage)

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To Magnus, on Baptizing the Novatians, and Those Who Obtain Grace on a ... that that is a True Baptism Wherein One is Baptized by Sprinkling on a Sick-Bed, ...

SUMMA THEOLOGIAE: The sacrament of Baptism (Tertia Pars, Q. 66)

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Now washing may be done with water not only by immersion, but also by sprinkling or pouring. And, therefore, although it is safer to baptize by immersion, ...

CHURCH FATHERS: On Baptism (Tertullian)

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Let no one say, Why then, are we, pray, baptized with the very waters which then ... Moreover, by carrying water around, and sprinkling it, they everywhere ...

CHURCH FATHERS: On Baptism, Book VI (Augustine)

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And so also in the epistle which he wrote to Magnus, when he was asked whether there was any difference in the efficacy of baptism by sprinkling or by ...

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Holy Water

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As, in many cases, the water used for the Sacrament of Baptism was flowing ... to Christian churches where a clerk sprinkled the faithful as they came in and, for ...

CHURCH FATHERS: On the Baptism of Christ (Gregory of Nyssa)

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For these things, and all that follow from them, the grace of Baptism secures and ..... And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be cleansed: from all ...

CHURCH FATHERS: Epistle 69 (Cyprian of Carthage)

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To Januarius and Other Numidian Bishops, on Baptizing Heretics. ... the man who is baptized; because the Lord says by Ezekiel the prophet: Then will I sprinkle ...

CHURCH FATHERS: Catechetical Lecture 3 (Cyril of Jerusalem)

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Were buried therefore with Him by our baptism into death, etc. 1. Rejoice, you heavens, and let the earth be glad , for those who are to be sprinkled with hyssop , ...

CHURCH FATHERS: Oration 40 (Gregory Nazianzen)

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And now today let us discourse briefly concerning Baptism, and the benefits ..... the legal blood, more sacred than the ashes of the heifer sprinkling the unclean,

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On Merit and the Forgiveness of Sins, and the Baptism of Infants (Book III) ...... a sprinklingof holiness arising out of the close ties of married life and children.

CHURCH FATHERS: Oration 39 (Gregory Nazianzen)

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The spiritual Baptism of water and the Holy Ghost given us by our Lord. ... with temporary sprinklings, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean; or do the ...

CHURCH FATHERS: On the Mysteries (St. Ambrose)

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Exodus 15:10 You observe that even then holy baptism was prefigured in ..... on the chaste veil of innocence, of which the prophet said: You shall sprinkle me ...

CHURCH FATHERS: Hymns for Epiphany (Ephraim)

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With chrism have you been sealed, in baptism you are perfected, in the flock you ..... The priests took up of the mire — and on the altar they sprinkled it — for its ...

CHURCH FATHERS: Epistle of Barnabas

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And the boys that sprinkle are those that have proclaimed to us the remission of .... the Lord took any care to foreshadow the water [of baptism] and the cross.

CHURCH FATHERS: The First Apology (St. Justin Martyr)

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Christian baptism ... approach them with libations and burnt-offerings, also to sprinklethemselves; and they cause them also to wash themselves entirely, as they ...

SUMMA THEOLOGIAE: The remission of venial sin (Tertia Pars, Q. 87)

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Are venial sins forgiven by the sprinkling of holy water, a bishop's blessing, the ... obtains the power of Baptism, wherefore it washes away all sin, both venial and ...

CHURCH FATHERS: Letter 69 (Jerome)

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If, said he, to marry a wife is not sinful, and if baptism forgives sins, all that is not ..... he says, from among the heathen...then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, ...

CHURCH FATHERS: On the Holy Spirit, Book I (Ambrose)

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For John, though he did not baptize in the Spirit, nevertheless preached Christ ...... and the sprinkling the ashes of an heifer sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh, ..

CHURCH FATHERS: Catechetical Lecture 16 (Cyril of Jerusalem)

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... and at the time of Holy Baptism is included with them in the Holy Trinity. ..... was said about Baptism; Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you , and the rest; ...

CHURCH FATHERS: On Repentance (Tertullian)

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Moreover, a presumptuous confidence in baptism introduces all kind of vicious ... a man of so faithless repentance, one single sprinkling of any water whatever?

CHURCH FATHERS: Exposition on Psalm 51 (Augustine)

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For we know both by the Baptism of Christ that sins are loosed, and that the .... You shall sprinkle me, he says, with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed Psalm 50:7.

CHURCH FATHERS: Homily 16 on Hebrews (Chrysostom)

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Tell me then why is the book of the testament sprinkled, and also the people, except ... In this place blood and water show forth the same thing, for baptism is His ...

CHURCH FATHERS: Council of Chalcedon (A.D. 451)

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Now when he came to the baptism of John his forerunner, lest the fact that the .... that sanctification by the Spirit takes place through the sprinkling of the blood of ...

CHURCH FATHERS: Against Two Letters of the Pelagians, Book IV ...

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To this praise they add also, that they say that Christ the Lord was sprinkled with no ... In the praise of the saints they conceal themselves, saying that baptism ...

CHURCH FATHERS: Homily 2 on Matthew (Chrysostom)

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... the spirits of the just, the general assembly of the angels, the blood of sprinkling, .... Thus His baptism also was of the same kind, for it partook of the old, and it ...

CHURCH FATHERS: On the Resurrection of the Flesh (Tertullian)

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Is it not by its means that it has a sprinkling of the divine power, there being ...... with Christ in baptism, and also raised again with Him through the faith of the ...

CHURCH FATHERS: Letter 31 (Jerome)

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... at the baptism of Christ. Matthew 3:16 But to give you, too, a sprinkling of pepper and to remind you of my former letter, I send you today this three-fold warning.

CHURCH FATHERS: Against Heresies, I.30 (St. Irenaeus)

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For they affirm that all things rushed towards and clung to that sprinkling of light, .... and prepared the baptism of repentance, and adopted Jesus beforehand, ...

CHURCH FATHERS: Letter 265 (St. Basil)

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John 1:29 He preaches partial baptisms after the one baptism, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the Church which, through its faith in Christ, has not spot or ...

CHURCH FATHERS: Commonitorium (Vincent of Lerins)

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The example of Pope Stephen in resisting the Iteration of Baptism. ...... They sprinkle it over, therefore, with the perfume of heavenly language, in order that one ...

CHURCH FATHERS: Nisibene Hymns (Ephraim)

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It has been proclaimed, that that lowly blood which Noah sprinkled, wholly ... You might baptize and purify me, but that in them You might chasten me with fear.


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I added And many more, NEW ADVENT: Search

Also, I answered several posts, look for Me: which I may have put inside someone's response.

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Ezekiel 36:25-26 Amplified Bible (AMP)
25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your uncleanness and from all your idols. 26 Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

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Make a list of all your LDS doctrines, you will not find that combo in the Early Church Fathers, Whom the Apostles taught. Yes, this is a challenge

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Ok friend, thanks for defining. What quotes with links from the church fathers do you have. Is burning in the bosom part of that definition above?

Didache

Chapter 7. Concerning Baptism
And concerning baptism, baptize this way: Having first said all these things, baptize into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Matthew 28:19 in living water. But if you have not living water, baptize into other water; and if you can not in cold, in warm. But if you have not either, pour out water thrice upon the head into the name of Father and Son and Holy Spirit. But before the baptism let the baptizer fast, and the baptized, and whatever others can; but you shall order the baptized to fast one or two days before.

CHURCH FATHERS: The Didache

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The Didache is proof of what the early church practiced. It is not proof of any kind of Apostasy.

I want only the Early Church Fathers, not the Bible. Since the King James Bible has been misinterpreted by many today.

The early church Fathers were appointed and taught by the apostles themselves.

The whole great apostasy thing is a myth by those who can not handle the truths of history.

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Chapter 14. Of Paul's Assertion, that He Had Not Been Sent to Baptize
But they roll back an objection from that apostle himself, in that he said, For Christ sent me not to baptize;1 Corinthians 1:17 as if by this argument baptism were done away! For if so, why did he baptize Gaius, and Crispus, and the house of Stephanas? However, even if Christ had not sent him to baptize, yet He had given other apostles the precept to baptize. But these words were written to the Corinthians in regard of the circumstances of that particular time; seeing that schisms and dissensions were agitated among them, while one attributes everything to Paul, another to Apollos. For which reason the peace-making apostle, for fear he should seem to claim all gifts for himself, says that he had been sent not to baptize, but to preach. For preaching is the prior thing, baptizing the posterior. Therefore the preaching came first: but I think baptizingwithal was lawful to him to whom preaching was.

Chapter 15. Unity of Baptism. Remarks on Heretical And Jewish Baptism
I know not whether any further point is mooted to bring baptism into controversy. Permit me to call to mind what I have omitted above, lest I seem to break off the train of impending thoughts in the middle. There is to us one, and but one, baptism; as well according to the Lord's gospel as according to the apostle's letters, inasmuch as he says, One God, and one baptism, and one church in the heavens. But it must be admitted that the question, What rules are to be observed with regard to heretics? is worthy of being treated. For it is to us that that assertion refers. Heretics, however, have no fellowship in our discipline, whom the mere fact of their excommunication testifies to be outsiders. I am not bound to recognize in them a thing which is enjoined on me, because they and we have not the same God, nor one — that is, the same— Christ. And therefore their baptism is not one with ours either, because it is not the same; a baptism which, since they have it not duly, doubtless they have not at all; nor is that capable of being counted which is not had. Ecclesiastes 1:15 Thus they cannot receive it either, because they have it not. But this point has already received a fuller discussion from us in Greek. We enter, then, the font once: once are sins washed away, because they ought never to be repeated. But the Jewish Israel bathes daily, because he is daily being defiled: and, for fear that defilementshould be practised among us also, therefore was the definition touching the one bathing made. Happy water, which once washes away; which does not mock sinners (with vain hopes); which does not, by being infected with the repetition of impurities, again defile them whom it has washed!

Chapter 16. Of the Second Baptism — With Blood"

CHURCH FATHERS: On Baptism (Tertullian)

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Your lack of knowledge is amusing. Baptism is a purification ritual. Whatever water was available was used. My Jewish Ancestors lived in a Desert Environment. In cases where water was limited, sprinkling was done. It is God himself speaking below.


Ezekiel 36:25 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
25 Then I will sprinkle pure water on you and make you pure. I will wash away all your filth, the filth from those nasty idols, and I will make you pure.

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Other cases:

Exodus 29:21 Then take some of the blood from the altar. Mix it with the special oil and sprinkle it on Aaron and his clothes. And sprinkle it on his sons and their clothes. This will show that Aaron and his sons serve me in a special way. And it will show that their clothes are used only at special times.

Leviticus 4:6 He must put his finger in the blood and sprinkle the blood seven times before the Lord in front of the curtain of the Most Holy Place.

Leviticus 4:17 He must put his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times in front of the curtain before the Lord.

Leviticus 5:9 The priest will sprinkle the blood from the sin offering on the side of the altar. Then he will pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.

Leviticus 6:27 Touching the meat of the sin offering makes a person or a thing holy. “If any of the sprinkled blood falls on a person’s clothes, you must wash the clothes in a holy place.

Leviticus 7:2 A priest must kill the guilt offering in the same place where they kill the burnt offerings. Then he must sprinkle the blood from the guilt offering around the altar.

Leviticus 7:14 Offer one each of these different kinds of bread as a gift to the Lord. Then it will belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the fellowship offerings.

Leviticus 8:10 Then Moses took the anointing oil and sprinkled it on the Holy Tent and on everything in it. In this way he made them holy.

Leviticus 8:11 He sprinkled some of the anointing oil on the altar seven times. He sprinkled the oil on the altar, on all its tools and dishes, and on the bowl and its base. In this way he made them holy.

Leviticus 8:19 Then Moses killed the ram. He sprinkled the blood around on the altar.

Leviticus 8:24 Then Moses brought Aaron’s sons close to the altar. He put some of the blood on the tip of their right ears, on the thumb of their right hands, and on the big toe of their right feet. Then he sprinkled the blood around on the altar.

Leviticus 8:30 Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar. He sprinkled some on Aaron and on Aaron’s clothes. He sprinkled some on Aaron’s sons who were with Aaron and on their clothes. In this way Moses made Aaron, his clothes, his sons, and his sons’ clothes holy.

Leviticus 9:12 Next, Aaron killed the animal for the burnt offering. His sons brought the blood to him, and he sprinkled the blood around on the altar.

Leviticus 9:18 Aaron also killed the bull and the ram that were the fellowship offerings from the people. His sons brought the blood to him, and he sprinkled this blood around on the altar.

Leviticus 14:7 He must sprinkle the blood seven times on those who had the skin disease. Then he must announce that they are clean. After that the priest must go to an open field and let the living bird go free.

Leviticus 14:16 Then the priest will dip the finger of his right hand into the oil that is in his left palm. He will use his finger to sprinkle some of the oil seven times before the Lord.

Leviticus 14:27 He will use the finger of his right hand to sprinkle some of the oil that is in his left palm seven times before the Lord.

Leviticus 14:51 Then he will take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the piece of red cloth, and the living bird and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed over running water. Then he will sprinkle that blood on the house seven times.

Leviticus 16:14 Aaron will dip his finger into the bull’s blood and sprinkle it on the front of the Holy Box. Then he will sprinkle the blood seven times onto the front of the mercy-cover.

Leviticus 16:15 “Then Aaron will kill the goat of the sin offering for the people. He will bring this goat’s blood into the room behind the curtain. He will do with the goat’s blood as he did with the bull’s blood. He will sprinkle the goat’s blood on the mercy-cover and in front of it.

Leviticus 16:19 Then he will dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it on the altar seven times. In this way Aaron will make the altar holy and clean from all the sins of the Israelites.

Numbers 8:7 This is what you should do to make them clean: Sprinkle the special water from the sin offering on them. This water will make them clean. Then they must shave their bodies and wash their clothes. This will make their bodies clean.

Numbers 18:17 “But you must not make a payment for the firstborn cow, sheep, or goat. These animals are holy. Sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat as a sweet-smelling gift to the Lord.

Numbers 19:4 Then Eleazar the priest must put some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle some of the blood toward the Holy Tent. He must do this seven times.

Numbers 19:18 That clean person must take a hyssop branch and dip it into the water. The clean person must sprinkle it over the tent, the dishes, and any people who were in the tent. That clean person must do this for anyone who touches a dead body, its bones, or even a grave.

Numbers 19:19 “Then that clean person must sprinkle this water on you on the third day and again on the seventh day. On the seventh day you will become clean. You must wash your clothes in water and you will become clean in the evening.

Numbers 19:20 “Whoever becomes unclean and does not become clean must be separated from the community. If an unclean person is not sprinkled with that special water and does not become clean, that person might make the Lord’s Holy Tent unclean.

Numbers 19:21 This rule will be for you forever. And whoever sprinkled the special water must wash their clothes because they will be unclean until evening.

2 Kings 16:13 Ahaz burned his burnt offerings and grain offerings on it. He poured his drink offering and sprinkled the blood of his fellowship offerings on this altar.

2 Kings 16:15 He commanded Uriah the priest, “Use the large altar to burn the morning burnt offerings, the evening grain offerings, and the drink offerings from all the people of this country. Sprinkle all the blood from the burnt offering and other sacrifices on the large altar. But I will use the bronze altar to get answers from God.”

2 Chronicles 29:22 So the priests killed the bulls and kept the blood. Then they sprinkled the bulls’ blood on the altar. Then they killed the rams and sprinkled the rams’ blood on the altar. Then they killed the lambs and sprinkled the lambs’ blood on the altar.

2 Chronicles 30:16 They took their regular places in the Temple as described in the Law of Moses, the man of God. The Levites gave the blood to the priests. Then the priests sprinkled the blood on the altar.

2 Chronicles 35:11 The Passover lambs were killed. Then the Levites skinned the animals and gave the blood to the priests. The priests sprinkled the blood on the altar.

Ezekiel 36:25 Then I will sprinkle pure water on you and make you pure. I will wash away all your filth, the filth from those nasty idols, and I will make you pure.

Ezekiel 43:18 Then the man said to me, “Son of man, this is what the Lord God says: ‘These are the rules for the altar: At the time you build the altar, use these rules to offer burnt offerings and to sprinkle blood on it.

Ezekiel 43:24 Then you will offer them before the Lord. The priests will sprinkle salt on them. Then they will offer the bull and ram up as a burnt offering to the Lord.

Hosea 7:9 Strangers destroy Ephraim’s strength, but Ephraim does not know it. Gray hairs are also sprinkled on Ephraim, but Ephraim does not know it.

Hebrews 9:13 The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a cow were sprinkled on those who were no longer pure enough to enter the place of worship. The blood and ashes made them pure again—but only their bodies.

Hebrews 9:19 First, Moses told the people every command in the law. Then he took the blood of young bulls and mixed it with water. He used red wool and a branch of hyssop to sprinkle the blood and water on the book of the law and on all the people.

Hebrews 9:21 In the same way, Moses sprinkled the blood on the Holy Tent. He sprinkled the blood over everything used in worship.

Hebrews 10:22 Sprinkled with the blood of Christ, our hearts have been made free from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with pure water. So come near to God with a sincere heart, full of confidence because of our faith in Christ.

Hebrews 12:24 You have come to Jesus—the one who brought the new agreement from God to his people. You have come to the sprinkled blood that tells us about better things than the blood of Abel.

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From your own church, "There were various purifying ceremonies. Bathing the flesh and the clothes in running water was used in all and sufficed in the simplest cases. When the uncleanness was of a deeper character, a purifying water for sprinkling was provided:"Purification

I am surprised you never made the connection.

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CHURCH FATHERS: On the Baptism of Christ (Gregory of Nyssa)
CHURCH FATHERS: Against Two Letters of the Pelagians, Book IV (Augustine)

"In the sacraments of salvation, when necessity compels, and God bestows His mercy, the divine methods confer the whole benefit on believers; nor ought it to trouble any one that sick people seem to be sprinkled or affused, when they obtain the Lord's grace, when Holy Scripture speaks by the mouth of the prophet Ezekiel, and says, Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit will I put within you. Ezekiel 36:25-26 Also in Numbers: And the man that shall be unclean until the evening shall be purified on the third day, and on the seventh day shall be clean: but if he shall not be purified on the third day, on the seventh day he shall not be clean. And that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of sprinkling has not been sprinkled upon him. And again: And the Lord spoke unto Moses saying, Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. And thus shall you do unto them, to cleanse them: you shall sprinkle them with the water of purification. Numbers 8:5-7 And again: The water of sprinkling is a purification. Numbers 19:9 Whence it appears that the sprinkling also of water prevails equally with the washing of salvation; and that when this is done in the Church, where the faith both of receiver and giver is sound, all things hold and may be consummated and perfected by the majesty of the Lord and by the truth of faith." CHURCH FATHERS: Epistle 75 (Cyprian of Carthage)

From Archaeology which is not Catholic,
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Sixty times the food of life, sixty times the water of life,
sprinkle upon it,

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Sprinkle Ishtar with the water of life and take her from
my presence!”

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“See, O Telepinus! I have now sprinkled thy ways
with fine oil. So walk thou, Telepinus, over these ways
that are sprinkled with fine oil! (30) Let sahis wood
and happuriasas wood be at hand! Let us set thee right,
O Telepinus, into whatever state of mind is the right
one!”

"Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating To The Old Testament"

"Full text of "Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating To The Old Testament"

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Daniel Marsh said:

historical sources that show how the Bible was understood wins out every time over one's personal interpretations or opinions.

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Daniel Marsh said:

Baptism as we know it is a Jewish Purification Ritual started by God himself.

Ezekiel 36:25 Then I will sprinkle pure water on you and make you pure. I will wash away all your filth, the filth from those nasty idols, and I will make you pure.

From Ancient Near Eastern Texts related to OT, it shows that it was done that way. In Greek, the word Baptize simply means to wash. There are many ways to wash oneself.

"
[She] draws some water and bathes;"
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(The beginning of column i has not been recovered
as yet.)
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Luke 7:38 She stood at Jesus’ feet, crying. Then she began to wash his feet with her tears. She dried his feet with her hair. She kissed his feet many times and rubbed them with the perfume.

No bathtub in Luke 7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where was the miḳweh when the ladies went to wash Jesus after his death?

"As soon as death was certain, the deceased’s eyes were closed; the corpse was washed, and then wrapped and bound. According to the third-century C.E. Jewish tractate Semahot, men could only prepare the corpse of a man, but women could prepare both men and women. Literary depictions often suggest that perfumes or ointments were used for this washing. The body was wrapped and bound in strips of cloth. John 11 has such preparations in view: Lazarus’s “hands and feet [were] bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth” (John 11:44).
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" Burial Practices in First Century Palestine

Mark 16 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

1 The next day after the Sabbath day, Mary Magdalene, Salome, and Mary the mother of James bought some sweet-smelling spices to put on Jesus’ body. 2 Very early on that day, the first day of the week, the women were going to the tomb. It was very early after sunrise. 3 The women said to each other, “There is a large stone covering the entrance of the tomb. Who will move the stone for us?”

Luke 24 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
1 Very early Sunday morning, the women came to the tomb where Jesus’ body was laid. They brought the sweet-smelling spices they had prepared. 2 They saw that the heavy stone that covered the entrance had been rolled away. 3 They went in, but they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

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Daniel Marsh said:

Ezekiel 36:25 Then I will sprinkle pure water on you and make you pure. I will wash away all your filth, the filth from those nasty idols, and I will make you pure.

The verse above is one of their baptismal options by God himself.
The availability of water is the key. This is witnessed by archaeology, ancient near eastern texts related to the OT. Other books on early texts related to the Bible, History, Church Fathers who were taught by the Apostles themselves. The reference to other purification rituals demonstrate that there was a wide range from Sprinkling to dunking.

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Daniel Marsh said:

Ezekiel 36:25 Then I will sprinkle pure water on you and make you pure. I will wash away all your filth, the filth from those nasty idols, and I will make you pure.

The verse above is one of their baptismal options by God himself.
The availability of water is the key. This is witnessed by archaeology, ancient near eastern texts related to the OT. Other books on early texts related to the Bible, History, Church Fathers who were taught by the Apostles themselves. The reference to other purification rituals demonstrate that there was a wide range from Sprinkling to dunking.

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Daniel Marsh said:

Baptism as we know it is a Jewish Purification Ritual started by God himself.

Ezekiel 36:25 Then I will sprinkle pure water on you and make you pure. I will wash away all your filth, the filth from those nasty idols, and I will make you pure.

From Ancient Near Eastern Texts related to OT, it shows that it was done that way. In Greek, the word Baptize simply means to wash. There are many ways to wash oneself.

"
[She] draws some water and bathes;"
...
(The beginning of column i has not been recovered
as yet.)
...
Luke 7:38 She stood at Jesus’ feet, crying. Then she began to wash his feet with her tears. She dried his feet with her hair. She kissed his feet many times and rubbed them with the perfume.

No bathtub in Luke 7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where was the miḳweh when the ladies went to wash Jesus after his death?

"As soon as death was certain, the deceased’s eyes were closed; the corpse was washed, and then wrapped and bound. According to the third-century C.E. Jewish tractate Semahot, men could only prepare the corpse of a man, but women could prepare both men and women. Literary depictions often suggest that perfumes or ointments were used for this washing. The body was wrapped and bound in strips of cloth. John 11 has such preparations in view: Lazarus’s “hands and feet [were] bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth” (John 11:44).
...
" Burial Practices in First Century Palestine

Mark 16 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

1 The next day after the Sabbath day, Mary Magdalene, Salome, and Mary the mother of James bought some sweet-smelling spices to put on Jesus’ body. 2 Very early on that day, the first day of the week, the women were going to the tomb. It was very early after sunrise. 3 The women said to each other, “There is a large stone covering the entrance of the tomb. Who will move the stone for us?”

Luke 24 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
1 Very early Sunday morning, the women came to the tomb where Jesus’ body was laid. They brought the sweet-smelling spices they had prepared. 2 They saw that the heavy stone that covered the entrance had been rolled away. 3 They went in, but they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

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