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i got into a discussion with a prof once who had studied the importance of baptism (bp) and the lord's supper (ls)...he said that the 2 became imp for early xians but he couldn't explain why....he said that christ commanded many things that didn't become imp to the early community...ie foot-washing, love one another...neither of these 2 were seized upon and became common practice with pre-liturigal forms...he theorized that these 2 events bp & ls became imp because the earyl xians id them as "something jesus did that i can do"...
something i find interesting is a paradigm shift in xianity from "beliefs/practices" to "relationships" and "community-held doctrines" to "the imp of self understg"...
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