Like Paul said in 1 Corinthians 10:1-4 the Jews were baptized into Moses in the Red Sea. In this case the water which "saved" them is the Red Sea.
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Symbolically, we are not free of slavery until we leave Egypt and we are not out of Egypt until we go through the water. Israel had already escaped slavery in Egypt, or so they thought, but they discovered that they were not yet free when Pharaoh sent his troops after them. Salvation occurs when we are baptized, as proved by 1 Peter 3:21 and several other passages.Īnother foreshadow of the saving effect of baptism is found in the crossing of the Red Sea by God's people. Nevertheless baptism plays a role in salvation. Faith on our part and grace on God's part is the essential requirement. Baptism is not the essential principle in salvation. Like Peter says, "baptism now saves you also." Of course, we all know that the blood of Jesus is the most basic requirement for salvation and faith on our part in that blood is another basic requirement for salvation. The symbolic "shadow" is always found in the Old Testament and the fulfilled "reality" is found in the New Testament. Can the flood of Noah be a symbol of a symbol? Obviously not. People say that baptism is a symbol, but in this passage the flood is a symbol and baptism is the reality to which the symbol points. Your interpretation of 1 Peter 3:21 as a foreshadow is absolutely correct in my opinion. It is belief in this false doctrine which causes people to not understand the type/antitype teaching in 1 Peter 3:21 in some cases. One of the most common false teachings in Christianity today is that baptism is a mere symbol, and has no actual effect. The reason some people do not see this is not because it is hard to understand but because they are familiar with the false teaching that we are saved when we "pray Jesus into heart." I do not think the problem is lack of clarity on your part! When we look at the scripture through the lens of false doctrine, we can miss some pretty obvious points in the Bible. There are multiple type/antitype examples in the Old Testament which imply that salvation occurs at baptism. I actually make this same point in the book From Shadow to Reality ( as you will see as you read it. I would appreciate your thoughts if you have the time to respond. Maybe I didn't explain it very well, or maybe I just don't understand. Unfortunately, not too many seemed to understand what I was saying. You can't have a shadow without the reality which casts it. It seems that something cast that shadow (salvation by water), and Peter said it was salvation in water during baptism. I made the comment in my lesson that it seems to me that if baptism does not save us today, (which so many claim to be so) then Noah and his family were not saved in the flood. Of course we know he is talking about the flood, ark, etc.
I raised the point in a lesson I taught (baptism saves, from the beginning it was so) that if baptism is the antitype, then what is the type? If baptism is the real thing, what is the shadow? If I understand Peter correctly, he said it was salvation by water, since eight souls were saved by water. In 1 Peter 3:21 Peter speaks of baptism as an antitype. I have a question/thought that I would appreciate your thoughts on if you have the time. It had a link to this website, so here I am. I just bought your book From Shadow to Reality and look forward to reading it. I have become fascinated with the shadow and reality relationship between the Old Testament and New Testament.
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