WrittenFromUtopia
Puritan Board Graduate
Looking for anyone and everyone's insight on this passage!
18 For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
19 in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison,
20 who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.
21 Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you -- not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience -- through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.
1 Peter 3:18-22 (NASB)
I have been thinking about this passage a lot lately, and would like to discuss it with you guys and see what we can come up with.
Of key importance and interest to me, I'm wondering about verse 21. From a simple reading, taking other things into consideration, it seems to me that through the application of baptism, we are making an appeal to God for a good conscience, which comes (the good conscience) through the resurrection of Christ. In other words, I am reading this as saying that baptism is an external sign and appeal to God for justification - asking God to save us, give us repentance and faith in Christ, so that we can share in His resurrection and the benefits of salvation and forgiveness of sins.
Thoughts?
[Edited on 23-1-2005 by WrittenFromUtopia]
18 For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
19 in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison,
20 who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.
21 Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you -- not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience -- through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.
1 Peter 3:18-22 (NASB)
I have been thinking about this passage a lot lately, and would like to discuss it with you guys and see what we can come up with.
Of key importance and interest to me, I'm wondering about verse 21. From a simple reading, taking other things into consideration, it seems to me that through the application of baptism, we are making an appeal to God for a good conscience, which comes (the good conscience) through the resurrection of Christ. In other words, I am reading this as saying that baptism is an external sign and appeal to God for justification - asking God to save us, give us repentance and faith in Christ, so that we can share in His resurrection and the benefits of salvation and forgiveness of sins.
Thoughts?
[Edited on 23-1-2005 by WrittenFromUtopia]