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The Exodus Way E12: N.T. Wright Interview – Baptism and the Exodus Story

Bible Project podcast — https://bibleproject.com/podcasts/nt-wright-interview-baptism-and-exodus-story/

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What this book knows

Baptism re-enacts the Exodus: crossing death-waters is the necessary passage through which God renews his people and reshapes human identity.

Sex: Absent
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Primary

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faith-and-doubt

Either a blasphemous nonsense of a false prophet—or this is the moment all Israel's history has been waiting for: the Deuteronomy 30 moment.
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John sends his message: 'Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for somebody else?' That is a cry of almost despair.
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self-and-identity

Baptism seems to have had the meaning of going down into death—a ritual death, not just a ritual washing.
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To let that go—to die—is a major challenge to all human pride: 'I want to cling on to my life. It's my life.'
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transformation

Baptized into his death, buried with him, so that just as the Messiah was raised, we too might behave with a new quality of life.
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Romans six, seven, and eight are a retelling of the whole Exodus story—six is the crossing of the Red Sea, seven is Sinai and the law.
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