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Originally Posted by Davidius I like the description God uses in Ezekiel 26 of Israel as an infant left on the side of the road, picked up by God, washed/cleansed and adopted. This shows how, in a sense, all baptisms are infant baptisms. The imagery of the infant shows how helpless we are. | I am in part trying to find out if this imagery in Ezekiel is a reference to something the Israelites would have understood as a ritual or ceremonial cleansing for infants, or simply an analogy from something non-ceremonial that happens to every baby when it is born. | Yeah, I am not so sure that it refers to an actual ceremony. What it does show, IMO, is that there is no inconsistency in God coming and adopting an infant/showing that infants are in the covenant, etc. It makes me think of the children being brought to Jesus.
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