chessman
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You are confused because you chopped my reply up, rather than reading the entire statement. Much as you did to the one sentence that is Hebrews 10:19-22. Verse 22 isn’t even a whole sentence.
I didn’t say that priests under Judaism washed the altar with “pure water”. I said they washed it with goat blood. How could they have used “pure water” as they had none available to them. They used goat’s blood instead.
No, the action (the verb) they performed is the same as the action verb Jesus does to us Christian brothers. But the materials differ. They used unpure water to wash their bodies in order to enter the sanctuary behind the veil /curtain and goat’s blood to wash the altar within the curtain.
Jesus uses his pure blood and pure water (which poured out of His pierced flesh) to wash our bodies and our consciences with.
Therefore, brothers, having confidence for the entering of the Holies by the blood of Jesus— which fresh and living way He inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, His flesh— and having a great Priest over the house of God, let us be approaching God with a true heart in full-assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with clean water.
Hebrews 10:19-22 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Hebrews 10:19-22&version=DLNTChrist does the washing (and uses His pure blood and pure water for it) within Christianity.
Priests do the washing (and use impure water and goat blood for it) within Judaism.
You are misinformed. There is no apostles’ teaching that in baptism we are born again of water. We just established (Scripturally) that Jesus uses “pure water” for His washing (the Hebrew word from which the Greek word comes).
We are initially born through the womb water from our mothers, then Christians are “born again” from above through Jesus’s pure blood and pure water is what Scripture teaches.
And the author of Hebrews does most certainly teach that the yearly washing of the altar by water washed priests using goat blood is applicable to (though inferior and not “well pleasing”) what Christ has done to washed Christians.
Saying above that “You did not desire nor were You well-pleased with sacrifices and offerings and whole-burnt-offerings and offerings for sin” (which are being offered according-to the Law!), then He has said, “Behold, I have come that I might do Your will”— He does-away-with the first in-order-that He might establish the second, ... by which will we have been made-holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once-for-all.
Hebrews 10:8-10 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Hebrews 10:8-10&version=DLNTJewish priests first made themselves holy by each year washing with impure water, entered the Holy sanctuary behind the curtain, then washed the altar with goat blood in order to wash away the sins of the people each and every year. This pleased God, but wasn’t “well-pleasing” in comparison the what the living Christ does to Christians.
Christ, as our High Priest and perfect mediator for all Christians, has perfected our holiness once and for all through offering His pure body (His blood and His water) and washing us (body and conscience) Himself.
Regenerational baptism is a verb (an action) Christ does TO us using His pure water and His pure blood , not that we do to ourselves using inferior elements.
Simple really.
