I listen to all the time how benediction symbolizes funeral as well as resurrection. Is benediction only behaving out the earthy burial? Water beats dirt, we suppose. Bring your own headstone…
BTW Y!A longed for to post this in "Garden as well as Landscape." we theory I’m not surprised.
God must have a sense f humor,…He has to to have servants like you!LOL.
John baptized people as a sign that they had asked God to forgive their sins and had decided to live as he wanted them to live. Baptism was an outward sign of commitment.To be effective, it had to be accompanied by in inward change of attitude leading to a changed life— the work of the Holy Spirit( in essence to washing the "dirt"out of ones grubby little heart,with "water" LOL).