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Baptism the new Creation

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1 Peter 3:20-21 when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ


1 Corinthians 10:1-2 For I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptised into Moses in the cloud and in the sea


Catechism of the Catholic Church 1217 - 1222


Creation

Baptism

Anointing of Holy Spirit and water

  • in the beginning the Spirit of God hovered over the waters (Gen 1:2)

  • the dove from Noah's ark over the flood waters (Gen 8:8-12)

  • the pillar of cloud protected the Israelites during the crossing of the Red Sea (Ex 14:19-25)

  • the dove rested on Jesus during his baptism in the River Jordan (Mt 3:16-17)

  • baptism of water and the Spirit (Jn 3:5)

Water brings death

  • the flood waters wiped out all living things not in Noah's ark (Gen 7:21-23)

  • the Egyptians killed whilst crossing the Red Sea (Ex 14:26-28)

brings communion with Jesus's death (Rom 6:3; Col 2:12) and death to sin (Rom 6:1-11)

Water cleanses

  • the flood washed away the wickedness of man (Gen 6:11-13)

  • the Israelites crossed the Red Sea to escape the slavery of Pharaoh (Ex 14:15 - 15:21)

  • the River Jordan washed away Naaman’s leprosy (2 Kg 5:9-10)

baptism washes away the slavery of sin (Acts 22:16)

Water brings new birth

  • Noah and the flood in the new creation (Gen 7:17 - 8:19)

  • baby Moses was drawn out of the water and saved by Pharaoh's daughter (Ex 2:3-10)

  • Moses with the Israelites crossed the Red Sea in the exodus from slavery to freedom (Ex 14:15-31)

  • Joshua with the Israelites crossed the River Jordan into the promised land (Josh 3:14-17)

  • Naaman’s flesh was restored to that of a little child after washing in the River Jordan (2 Kg 5:14)

being born again in water and the Spirit to enter the kingdom of God (Jn 3:5), becoming a child of God (1 Jn 3:1) and a partaker of his divine nature (2 Pet 1:4)

For infants

  • baby Moses drawn out of the water (Ex 2:3-10)

  • all the Israelites including children crossed the Red Sea (Ex 14:15-31

based on faith of parents (Acts 2:38-39)


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