Original sentence: Adoptionists and other heretics considered Jesus to be a natural-born man and generally held his baptism to be the point at which he came to embody the Holy Spirit.Historians generally agree that Jesus was baptised by John the Baptist.In Eastern Christianity, Jesus' baptism is commemorated on 6 January, the feast of Epiphany.In the Gospel of John, John the Baptist identifies Jesus as the Lamb of God<ref> but is not stated explicitly to have baptized him.In the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and some other Western denominations, it is recalled on a day within the following week, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord.Most Christian groups view the baptism of Jesus as an important event and a basis for the Christian rite of baptism (see also ).Scholars of the historical-critical method find this event credible because it satisfies the criteria of multiple attestation and dissimilarity, that is, multiple sources attest to its happening, and it is not the sort of detail that early Christians would make up
Edited sentence: Christian adoptionists and other heretics who considered Jesus to be a natural-born man generally considered his baptism as the point at which he came to embody the holy spirit.In the gospel of John, John the Baptist identifies Jesus as the Son of God but doesn't baptize him.Jesus' baptism is commemorated on a day between 7 and 13 January in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and some other western denominations (see Baptism of the Lord).Most Christian groups view the baptism of Jesus as an important event and the basis of the Christian rite of baptism (see also Book of Acts 19:1-7).One of the few facts about the historical Jesus that historians generally agree on is that he was baptised by John the Baptist.Scholars of the historical-critical method find this event credible because it satisfies the criteria of multiple attestation and dissimilarity.That is, multiple sources attest to its happening, and it's not the sort of detail that early Christians would make up