religious question

[chesire_smile]

Ok, this is driving me crazy, and I cant find out anything on my own, so I am appealing to my readers.

There is a line from a recent country song (actually, two different songs) which goes:

"her mother wants to know if he was washed in the blood, or just in the water"

and I have no idea what that means.

edit: my friend just told me

Comments

[gollumgollum]

baptism, i'd think; was it real, true, did they actually accept Jesus or just get some water poured on them? *shrug*

[grancher]

My guess is that it's the difference between being born again in Jesus and thus baptised with the holy spirit, and being baptised with water by John. I'm not really sure what exactly that means but they seem rather different. I don't know why baptism with water forgives sins, it seems more like the beginning of a process as that is when a person says they will be Christian.
I tried looking these things up on the internet in respond to you post and the first few things to popup on Google seem to be void of useful content, almost as though someone who doesn't know what they are talking about has decided to pretend to know. Just like me.

I guess that was more or less what gollumgollum said, just in more words.

What's the answer?

[anonymous]

It kinda sounds to me like it's referring to whether he was just baptized when he was a baby (when he had no choice, if that's what his parents wanted to do), which would be the water part of the reference, or if he actually has made the conscious decision as an adult to go to church every week and be a practicing Christian, which would include taking communion, so that's what the blood part would be referring to.

Could be wrong, but just a guess. :)

[zpink_panther]

Sorry, that was me up there... for some reason, LJ decided I didn't deserve to be logged in anymore. :P