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For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
22The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
22Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
It sounds like Baptism into Jesus-
But does a figure save a person? When what is seen is temporary, and what is not seen is eternal. Sense the figure is seen then How can it eternally save?
Unless it's speaking of how we are saved in the life we now live. (Which can be temporary)
So is the scripture saying that there is another figure like the one in Noah's story? As an example of How we are saved from present circumstances?
So what is the "Like figure" referring to?
Is it how Noah was given away out of an upcoming circumstance, the flood, through his walk with God and therefore he prepared for it.
Therefore if its speaking about another figure in relation to the above Then we are given the Spirit for upcoming circumstances through our relationship with God therefore prepare by obeying it.
I can see how many denomination then take their view.
Part 2 of questions coming
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