Where is Baptism in the Bible? (Aquinas 101)

Is Baptism in the Bible? What are the origins of Baptism? What does Baptism do? In this episode of Aquinas 101: Where is Baptism in the Bible, join Fr. Dominic Langevin, O.P., a Dominican friar from the Province of St. Joseph, as he presents how the origins of Baptism.

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[SharpCats]

Happy Holy Week & Happy Easter ✝🧎‍♂🧎‍♀🕊🌴

[knights]

I was once listening to a 'messianic jewish-christian' talk about the preparation of the sacrificial lambs for Passover. During the days leading up to Passover there were literally hundreds of thousands of lambs (1 per household) being brought to the Temple in Jerusalem to be examined and slaughtered for their use at Passover. With 5000 Levictical priests on call, and a steady stream of lambs to be slaughtered on the altars in the Temple; there was a lot of blood being spilled. He explained there was a steady stream of water being brought to the Temple carried in jugs to wash the altars. Apparently this amount of blood and water formed a sizable stream which flowed out of the right side of the Temple, and out into the world. So at the same time the soldier was piercing the side of Jesus, with blood and water flowing out of His wound; the same thing was happening at the Temple within sight of the Cross. God is amazing.

[jamesmonahan]

Thank you ! Love the explanation! Happy Easter.

[anthonyw]

every time I watch these videos I learn something. I thought I knew the answer : er John the Babtist! But how naive of me😅. Thank you for yet another very illuminating video. Bless you, all.

[lisabeaudet]

Father Guilbeau, I would like to comment on your mention that, with regard to John's Gospel account of the crucifixion events, "It is rather strange that water would come out with blood." As a physician and pathologist who formerly performed many autopsies in my long career, I can attest that almost everyone who dies has at least a modicum of transparent watery fluid in the pleural cavity, sometimes blood-tinged, which could give the appearance of "blood and water", for instance, if a lance penetrated the side of the deceased. After losing significant blood during the trauma of His flogging, Jesus's hematocrit was probably quite low, which could well have resulted in a myocardial infarction (heart attack) and possibly some TIA's (mini-strokes), which in addition to low blood volume/hypotension/vasovagal episodes might account for his repeated falls, during His forced march in which he carried a heavy burden at least part of the way. This, followed by struggling to breathe for several hours on the Cross suggests to me at least that Jesus almost certainly would have accumulated a fair amount of pleural fluid around his lungs. And, if the centurion's lance penetrated more deeply so as to sever one of the larger pulmonary vessels, or one of the great vessels, thicker, more viscous and opaque blood would also have issued, since the lancing occured shortly after Jesus died, before His blood would have coagulated. This of course does not diminish the significance of blood and water in theological terms, as you most beautifully described, but it does provide a very simple biological explanation for why "blood and water" came from Jesus' side. Indeed, on purely anatomical/pathological grounds, I personally do not find it strange at all that "blood and water" would have issued from Jesus' side!

[OrigenisAdamantios]

I love when certain Christian denominations say they don’t believe in infant baptism cos “it’s not in the Bible!” Oh? Where does it say “pews”?

[ciscodealmeida]

Before a Priest performs a Baptism he should Fast for at least 3 days otherwise he can do more harm than good, baptism protects the person until the age 12.