Catholic Biblical Typology
Baptism the new creation of crossing the Red Sea
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
New Creation of Crossing Red Sea | Baptism | |
the pillar of cloud protected the Israelites during the crossing (Ex 14:19-25) | of water and the Spirit (Jn 3:5) | |
Water cleanses | for the Israelites to escape the slavery of Pharaoh (Ex 14:15 - 15:21) | washes away the slavery of sin (Acts 22:16) |
Water brings new birth (salvific) | a new life of freedom (Ex 14:15-31) | 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) with faith, baptism saves (Mk 16:16, Tit 3:5 & 1 Pet 3:21) |
For infants | all the Israelites including children crossed the Red Sea (Ex 14:15-31 | based on faith of parents (Acts 2:38-39) |
Water brings death | 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) |