However, God the Father, who knows how to teach, prepared us to understand baptism through foreshadowing and prophecy in the Old Testament. As the Fathers of the church taught, the figures of ...

At the same time, students idealize baptism as a ... Types and figures of baptism fill the Old Testament: It is the primal waters of creation, tamed by the Creator (Gen. 1:1–2); it is the ...

Our heavenly Father gives us his own divine life in baptism ... appear in a New Testament vacuum. The Father has prepared us to understand the New by teaching us through the Old Testament.

NATHAN: Baptism ... 12 year old Ben, who we see being immersed in a ceremony at the Lighthouse Church. This clip is from the series My Life, My Religion: Christianity. Read the new testament ...