{"id":15295,"date":"2025-01-07T10:46:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T15:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15295"},"modified":"2025-01-09T10:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T15:49:30","slug":"the-synthesis-book-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15295\/the-synthesis-book-baptism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Synthesis Book &#8211; Baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I just finished reading the part in the Synthesis book about baptism.\u00a0 So informative, so helpful and useful. I especially loved reading the words of this 17<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century &#8220;Quaker&#8221; theologian (Robert Barclay) who basically summarized the truth about baptism:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>\u201cAs there is one Lord and one faith, so there is one baptism; which is &#8216;not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience before God, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.&#8217; And this baptism is a pure and spiritual thing, to wit, the baptism of the Spirit and fire, by which we are buried with Him, that being washed and purged from our sins, we may walk in newness of life; of which the baptism of John was a figure which was commanded for a time, and not to continue for ever.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;m thankful that God allows us to see that the truth has been out there the whole time, despite the apostasy of the body of Christ, received, believed and taught by those who were willing and obedient.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thank you that you keep digging, studying and writing, just so we (and hopefully many others) can be blessed by nuggets of knowledge such as this one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Zoli<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tell us what you think:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1877381964048585086\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1877381964048585086<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading the part in the Synthesis book about baptism.\u00a0 So informative, so helpful and useful. I especially loved reading the words of this 17th\u00a0century &#8220;Quaker&#8221; theologian (Robert Barclay) who basically summarized the truth about baptism: \u201cAs there is one Lord and one faith, so there is one baptism; which is &#8216;not the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15297,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15295\/revisions\/15297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}