Ferguson seems to confirm that 'to drown' was the original sense of βαπτίζω. But strangely he always wants to return to familiar presuppositions:
https://books.google.com/books?id=xC9GA ... ze&f=false (start on p. 47)
Was Ancient Baptism = Religious Waterboarding?
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Secret Alias
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Re: Was Ancient Baptism = Religious Waterboarding?
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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andrewcriddle
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Re: Was Ancient Baptism = Religious Waterboarding?
pseudo-Justin.Secret Alias wrote:
Justin says : '' We represent our Lord's sufferings and resurrection by baptism in a pool."
Andrew Criddle