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You may be correct David.
But, we understand that Baptism is a symbolic representation of something inward.
Not really about the body.
In the New Testament also there is something expressed by the Lord about humility connected with foot washing.
Suppression of ego.
Finally, we see how the Essene community eschewed the mainline Jewish priesthood, which Jesus had also found fault with.
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"I believe there are two sides to the phenomena known as death. This side where we live, and the other side, where we shall continue to live.
Eternity does not start with death.
We are in eternity now." - Norman Vincent Peale
"There is no place in this new kind of physics for both the field and matter, for the field is the only reality." - A. Einstein
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