Lee
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Post by Lee on Apr 21, 2014 3:11:03 GMT
What is the significance/meaning of the washing of the feet?
The apostles were already baptized, but if someone arguing against the need of "complete immersion" were to use this passage and quote
" He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit."
How would you defend this?
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Bob
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Post by Bob on Apr 22, 2014 3:13:46 GMT
If our Lord and master Jesus shows by example of humility in washing his disciples' feet we are to do the same, in significance towards each other.
Remember in Middle Eastern custom the bottom of the feet was seen as the lowest of lows.
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Post by Lee on Apr 22, 2014 4:07:22 GMT
I agree, that humility and desire to do everything you can for your brethren, even things that most would consider "the lowest of lows", was a fundamental principle.
But how did this clean the person receiving it? It appears to be a spiritual cleansing as it points out the difference between the 11 and Judas 'AND YE ARE CLEAN, BUT NOT ALL' .... or was this a cleansing act at all?
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Post by richard on Apr 24, 2014 2:22:37 GMT
I don't see it saying they were all clean because of the washing of the feet. Judas was a deceiver , he hadn't really buried the old man of the flesh through the waters of baptism , Peter didn't won't his feet washed but when told he wouldn't have any part with him Peter said my hands and head also , hands ,work ; head , thoughts , doctrine . I think he was saying if you truly bury the old man you will be clean. |
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Post by Lee on Apr 24, 2014 3:57:14 GMT
Interesting comment related to this:
But Jesus reminded him that this was unnecessary, on the ground that he and the rest had already bathed, and bathers when they had left the bath needed only to wash their feet, and were then clean every whit. His words are— "He that is bathed (holeloumenos) hath no need but to wash (nipsasthai) the feet." This being the case with the apostles, Jesus refused to do more than wash their feet. John had bathed them in Jordan, and Jesus completed their investiture by the Word he had spoken to them, and the washing of their feet. Their feet were now—
"Shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace."
Before, they were girded with Truth, and had on the breastplate of Righteousness; but they were not shod. The word spoken to them by Jesus let them into the mysteries of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which are "the preparation of the Gospel," for no man can have part with Jesus in that ingdom, which is his joy, unless he is prepared by indoctrination into the Mystery.
1961 Berean p261
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