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Settling this once and for all!
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Hi Paul, (or anyone else from CoE)

After discussing baptism, I remembered 1 Peter 3:21. I don't know what Peshitta really really says but I can use Aramaic translations.


Etheridge Wrote:After which very type also you are saved in baptism, not while you cleanse the body from filth, but while you make confession of Aloha with a pure conscience, and of the resurrection of Jeshu Meshiha

Murdock Wrote:And ye also, by a like figure, are made alive by baptism, (not when ye wash your bodies from filth, but when ye confess God with a pure conscience,) and by the resurrection of Jesus the Messiah;

The Aramaic word for confess is mawd'eyn.

Etheridge and Murdock use "confess", but it can be rendered as "promise" also. My mother's church teaches "promise", but I don't feel right from that interpretation.

From your Eastern tradition and perspective -- is the correct interpretation "promise to serve God" or do we just "confess him (our faith confession)"?

I know this might be nitpicking, but I am itching to know...
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Settling this once and for all! - by DrawCloser - 08-16-2012, 04:14 PM
Re: Settling this once and for all! - by Alan G77 - 08-17-2012, 08:58 AM
Re: Settling this once and for all! - by Alan G77 - 08-17-2012, 09:03 AM
Re: Settling this once and for all! - by Alan G77 - 08-17-2012, 09:04 AM
Re: Settling this once and for all! - by Alan G77 - 08-18-2012, 02:46 AM
Re: Settling this once and for all! - by Alan G77 - 08-20-2012, 07:15 AM
Re: Settling this once and for all! - by Thirdwoe - 08-20-2012, 09:08 AM
Re: Settling this once and for all! - by Phil - 08-20-2012, 05:19 PM
Re: Settling this once and for all! - by Thirdwoe - 08-22-2012, 12:01 AM
Re: Settling this once and for all! - by Thirdwoe - 08-23-2012, 03:44 PM
Re: Settling this once and for all! - by Thirdwoe - 08-23-2012, 06:09 PM
Re: Settling this once and for all! - by DrawCloser - 08-24-2012, 02:14 PM

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