When and Where Was Israel's Sojourn in Egypt? The Long and Short of It (Part 2)

Jonathan Moore, D.P.M., Ph.D.

Apologetics Press, 2026

For most of the 2,000 years of the Christian Era, the “wash ing of regeneration” has been readily acknowledged as an allusion to water baptism. What’s more, the vast majority of Christendom did not place baptism in conflict with salvation like many today who insist that if baptism precedes and is nec essary to salvation, then baptism would be a “work”—and “everyone knows we’re not saved by works.”1 Such thinking, only relatively recently popularized, is so foreign to New Testament teaching on sal vation that it is difficult to fathom how it could have attained such a prominent foothold in contempo rary Christian theology. Incredibly, no doubt due to the Holy Spirit’s eternal and timeless nature as deity, this passage anticipated the “wrong turn” that has been taken by cor recting the components that com pose the “no works so no baptism” dogma.