THESIS 69: PATRIARCHY AND THE "SACRAMENTS": BAPTISM

In the "last days" of the Old Covenant (#86), the "sacraments" were properly administered by Families, as throughout the Old Covenant, most notably under the Patriarchs.

Baptism, as with circumcision,[250] was appropriately administered by the family head (#21). This symbolic washing ritual of the Old Covenant[251] was a sign[252] appropriate for the "terminal generation"[253] and expired with that generation[254] and the end of the Old Covenant in A.D. 70.[255]

Exposition

Implications

What this Thesis means; how it should affect your life; how our lives should affect the world.

Clarifications

What this Thesis does NOT mean; how it should NOT affect your life; how the Old World distorted the truth.

Confirmations

How "mainstream" evangelical or orthodox commentators have confirmed this Thesis (without accepting the overall paradigm)

Deliberations

Readers' questions, complaints, allegations, flames, threats

         -- answered, adjusted, denied, blessed, filed.

Prooftexts

250. Colossians 2:11-12

251. Hebrews 9:10; Exodus 40:32; Numbers 8:7; John 3:25

252. Acts 19:3-6; 1 Corinthians 14:21-22

253. Matthew 3:7; 11:16; 12:34,38-45; 16:4; 17:17; 23:33-36; 24:34; Mark 8:38 - 9:1,19; Luke 7:31-35; 11:29-32,50-51; 17:25; 21:32; Acts 2:40; Philippians 2:15; #86

254. Acts 21:25 (KJV)

255. Hebrews 5:12 - 6:8; #81

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