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Does Elisha speak?

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Q: Why was ;What is the biblical definition of marriage put on hold?

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Q: What to do when it is not clear which denomination to ask?

The question Is theodicy considered an open problem or a solved one, according to catholicism? was originally formulated without the denomination restriction. The reason behind it is that I don't know which denominations to ask to get the answer I am looking for. The basic question is: Why is the...

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Hello

8:29 PM

@MattGutting: hi are you here, how did you set the link exactly?

Matt Gutting

I'm here :-)

@Hello I have a bit of time for the discussion

Hello

howdy -interesting idea on Jesus' baptism being a Jewish one, I will investigate further, but I know the mikveh was also used by a woman about to be married on her wedding day and it has spiritual signifigance

Matt Gutting

Hm, okay. I think one of the problems is the word "baptism" itself; since it's Greek, we don't see it in a Jewish context in the Old Testament

Hello

@MattGutting - I think Jesus was showing his 'go the second mile' in his commitment to God, by being baptized or immersed in water, mikveh

@MattGutting how do you set the link to discuss from that page to here?

Matt Gutting

@Hello That's more or less the Catholic idea - although they might say he's showing his commitment to the people of God.

@Hello Making links. What you do is put the text of the link (like "Link Here") in square brackets, and immediately afterwards put the address in parentheses - so it looks like

[Link Here]( linkhere ) except without the spaces in the parentheses

Hello

8:35 PM

@Matt what about 'confirming his purity' before God since this is one of the meanings of the jewish immersion in water

Matt Gutting

@Hello I don't know about that.

Do you think that's why John was baptizing?

Hello

@MattGutting so, on the former page you would put (upper room) in parantheses?

@MattGutting or (The Upper Room)

Matt Gutting

@Hello You might say [ upper room ]( chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1167/the-upper-room ) without the spaces. Try it :-)

Hello

why is there a 1 inside my name on the type bar

is there another hello or something

I think John was doing his jewish prophet thing of calling the people back to God, only in this scenario because of where John was, on the brink of Jesus and the new cov. he was 'preparing the way for Christ', by calling,

@MattGutting John was baptizing a 'baptism of repentance from sin and turning to God', but he did it as a prophet of the old cov., there was no new cov. at this point in time even though the 'lamb could be see, visually'

the lamb had not yet taken away the sins of the world

Matt Gutting

@Hello One thing at a time :-) First ...

There's a "1" inside your name because there is 1 new statement addressed directly to you (with your username in it).

Second ...

He was preaching a baptism of repentance; that's why he was reluctant to baptize Jesus. But Jesus wanted this "for the fulfillment of righteousness" (or something like that, I don't remember the wording). What do you think that means?

Hello

8:51 PM

@MattGutting - only Jesus would not have to repent, and He had no original sin, I do not think, because of 'Adam 2' , so perhaps he 'went the second mile', although it wasn't needed to showed his attitude of always doing right by immersing anyway, the mikveh can be a commitment to God immersion, John called the people to turn wholeheartedly to God, and Jesus was wholehearted so the immersing in water could signify this,...or

@Matt John had a true message from God in his call, It was actually the Father calling through John so Jesus naturally responded with his 'Yes' that he always gave to the Father's will, Jesus heard the Father in John's call and naturally answered, yes I will.

Jesus could be seen in this as leading the way to God, affirming that John's call was right and was from God, and JEsus' actions showed he agreed wholeheartedly with it

something to that effect...what you do think

Matt Gutting

@Hello Question I've never thought about before: Do we have any evidence about how long John continued baptizing after he baptized Jesus?

Hello

@MattGutting none from gospels that I can think of right away,..other sources I don't know

@are you saying after John baptized Jesus, he may have stopped?

Matt Gutting

@Hello I like this last suggestion. - hangon something came up at work

Hello

@MattGutting I have to go now too, something did come to mind, later in the gospels I recall something to the effect that the disciples of John left him and followed Jesus instead, not en masse, but it was a few, and something about finding those bapt. with the baptiz of John and rebaptizing them into Christ, ...after their John baptism nice chatting, hope to talk again, can you add your info here and can I read it later on? hope so

Matt Gutting

By the way, did you know that you can link your reply to my statement? Hover over my last comment and you'll see it highlight the statement of yours that I'm replying to. Useful thing to do in chat.

@Hello If I tag your name on a comment here, you'll see it in the notification bar on the main site, just like if it appears in a comment on the main site. Get to it when you can.

Hello

9:05 PM

@Matt ok can u leave me what u think our topics of disc. mean? bye for now

@Matt not sure what you instructed me re highlight, etc. and what it does,..im green

Matt Gutting

@Hello We'll talk later when you have more time :-)

fredsbend

9:45 PM

@MattGutting You can preformat text by putting it inside tic marks. [link text](link)

That exactly is:

`[link text](link)`

@Hello Most of the formatting on the main sites works in chat too: christianity.stackexchange.com/editing-help

Some cool auto things with links though.

A link to in image in a chat message by itself:

Wikipedia:

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The permalink of a former chat message:

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Some cool auto things with links though.

A post on any SE site:

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