tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post1861146404598987641..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: Baptism for the deadRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-40291229010661017552020-01-03T20:59:31.107-05:002020-01-03T20:59:31.107-05:00The best and most satisfying to me biblical explan...The best and most satisfying to me biblical explanation for the baptism for the dead that I've come across is by James Rogers and it is found in the Biblical Horizons Newsletter number 76 and it's just called Baptism for the Dead. It is well worth reading.Bob Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15856473396843965285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-12311522875593222742008-12-06T01:49:00.000-05:002008-12-06T01:49:00.000-05:00I wish I knew the Greek better.I could be wrong, b...I wish I knew the Greek better.<BR/><BR/>I could be wrong, but in context of the surrounding argument it seems that a more figurative understanding of baptism is in play here. That is, if we are to disciple the nations baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit then this sense of baptism is more than merely immersing them in water, but also doing so only after having immersed them in the revelation of Christ, bringing them to an understanding of and submission to the truth.<BR/><BR/>So the sense of baptism in 1 Cor 15 may mean the diligent teaching and preaching in order to bring people to a saving knowledge of Christ. Who are the dead according to this passage? Christ, Paul and other apostles? That's who Paul is aligning with the dead.<BR/><BR/>The dead, therefore, are those who have died to their sin and taken up the burden of taking the gospel to everyone else. Those being baptized are being baptized because of the work and teaching of the "dead".<BR/><BR/>Like I said, I may be wrong, but I have to ask why Paul aligns himself with the dead and also places Christ in that category having been raised since - which is his point. Nowhere does he indicate that people whose bodies have died are to be indicated by the term "the dead".Jim Pembertonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01446388434272680014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-90193853347664341382008-12-05T20:44:00.000-05:002008-12-05T20:44:00.000-05:00Dave Armstrong tries to marshall this verse as a p...Dave Armstrong tries to marshall this verse as a proof for purgatory in his "The Catholic Verses" and calls it "The Most Un-Protestant Verse in the Bible".<BR/><BR/>He argues that the baptism is one of suffering (alms, fasting, etc.) that is undergone for those in Purgatory.Saint and Sinnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14166699860672840738noreply@blogger.com