(January 24, 2017 at 1:49 am)Godschild Wrote:(January 23, 2017 at 8:36 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Do you have an actual biblical reference for that little gem?
Acts chapter two and it says 3000 and many others were added to their group each day, not 5000. We should consider that women and children were not necessarily counted in those days. So the number could have easily been 5000.
(January 23, 2017 at 3:14 pm)Godschild Wrote: They would have all been baptized, easy enough to count them at that time, a practical way of knowing.
GC
WoG Wrote:Do you have any realistic idea how long it would take one man to baptize 5,000 people in a river?
There were twelve apostles and others disciples to baptize them. If only the twelve were baptizing and baptizing 20 every hour (which is reasonable, I've been to many baptisms) doing so for 8 hours a day, about 2 days. This is in reference to the 3000.
GC
(January 23, 2017 at 3:47 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: *sigh*
It was a joke, GC.
Sorry but it seemed serious to me.
GC
Oh yes, the three thousand figure is found in Acts 2:41.
Based on my readings of the Bible and the Jewish Babylonian Talmud I tend to discount the accuracy of any of their numbers about everything. They tend to lie.
