{"id":682,"date":"2010-06-24T19:31:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T19:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filtersfast.com\/blog\/?p=682"},"modified":"2014-02-20T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T19:05:10","slug":"bottled-water-for-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.filtersfast.com\/blog\/bottled-water-for-baptism\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottled Water for Baptism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baptism is a sacred tradition in the Christian faith. It signals what many Christians would call a \u201crebirth.\u201d In some circles, this rite is performed by sprinkling a tiny amount of water on a baby\u2019s head. In other circles, people of all ages are dunked in water before a crowd of witnesses as a testimony that they have been reborn \u2013 called to experience a new kind of life. No matter how the baptismal ceremony is conducted, it always involves one thing: water.<\/p>\n<p>Water is essential to life. The average person cannot survive more than a few days without it. Water makes up 90 percent of the human body. More than two-thirds of the earth is covered by it. If baptism signals new life and water <em>is <\/em>life, it follows, then, that water is essential for baptism.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"&quot;Old Church Gets Running Water&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wjactv.com\/news\/23181817\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">If water is essential for baptism, how did a small church in Godfrey, Illinois survive without water for 163 years?<\/a> The same way anyone survives in an emergency situation where there is no water: by using bottled water.<\/p>\n<p>Ironic, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>Bottled water is not exactly in the business of preserving life. Bottled water companies make millions of dollars packaging and selling a naturally-occurring resource that is otherwise, basically free. 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