13- If baptism is so important. were the prophets of the Old Testament baptized?

 

St-Takla.org Image: The three young men in the furnace of fire: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (Daniel 3), and King Nebuchadnezzar notices a fourth person "like the Son of God”. صورة في موقع الأنبا تكلا: الثلاثة فتية في أتون النار: شدرخ، ميشخ، عبدنغو (دانيال 3)، والملك نبوخذنصر يرى معهم شخص شبيه بابن الآلهة.

If the commandment of baptism had existed in their days, they would have been baptized. But this commandment is laid down in Christianity. Why? Because baptism is dying with Christ and Christ had not died in the Old Testament.

The prophets of the Old Testament practiced what they could in their days: the symbols of baptism such as circumcision and crossing the Red Sea. They also celebrated the Passover lamb, which symbolized the Blood of Christ. We should not expect people to have obeyed a commandment, unknown to them, as it succeeded their time/s.

Baptism and the verse: Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved

Comparative Theology Books by H. H. Pope Shenouda III

Is salvation through the word and not through water?