Bathing

Deformed or premature babies were regarded as the young of animals which had found their way into a woman’s body as a result of careless bathing or through malevolent spirit activity. 84:1.4

Before the Prince’s arrival, bathing had been an exclusively religious ceremonial. 66:5.21 87:6.12

In the Urantia Book

Greeks practiced the annual ritual bath (85:4.1)

• Jesus refused to go to public baths because of the sex promiscuity which there prevailed. 132:4.5 133:3.6

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• Water baptism 87:6.12 — Mt 3:6,11; Mk 1:4-5,8; Lk 3:3,7,16; Jn 1:25-26,31,33; Jn 3:22-23; Acts 1:5.