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To: ravenwolf

**Good reasoning as far as the blind man is concerned but i do not see baptism here.

Believing comes first, why would any unbeliever be baptized?**

The blind man believed that Jesus could do something for him, otherwise he wouldn’t have asked.

Jesus asking the blind man to go wash in the Pool of Siloam was done so that this man (with his belief/faith increasing) COULD choose to wash in the Pool of Siloam!

At the Easter Vigil we have many converts coming to wash in a figurative Pool of Siloam in the baptismal fount. Most Catholic Churches now have a small immersion pool connected to their Baptismal fount.

And always remember that God can doo all things. The man’s belief didn’t need to be that big — it grows and grows during this episode while the faith/belief of the Pharisees diminishes.


8 posted on 03/30/2014 9:06:45 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

And always remember that God can doo all things. The man’s belief didn’t need to be that big — it grows and grows during this episode while the faith/belief of the Pharisees diminishes.


Yes, and it does make a good point.


9 posted on 03/30/2014 9:16:35 AM PDT by ravenwolf (hat many years.ost void of pend us)
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