I remember my Baptism very vividly. It was April 2007, 3:00 in the morning. The baptistry was cold, the church building was dark and it was myself and a good brother in Christ named Anthony who didn 't give up on me after a bible study that took us from 7:00 PM to about 2:30 in the morning. I had questions... tons of them. And even as I stood in that cold baptistry shivering, but kept somewhat warm from my excitement, I still had questions. But I was so sure that I wanted to follow Jesus, live for him, and when I came up from the water, I had begun a new life.
What is Baptism?
Some time ago, i was watching a movie based on the life of Christ and i remember coming to the part where it depicts Jesus being baptized by his cousin, John. John took a wooden cup, filled it with water …show more content…
Think about this; how can one be buried, immersed (baptized) by simply being sprinkled or upon? At a funeral, i 've never seen a handful of dirt thrown on a casket and the job is considered done and the casket is considered buried. it doesn 't make sense. so how can we associate pour/sprinkle with The greek words for Pour or Sprinkle are Cheo (Pour) and Rhantizo (Sprinkle), which can be find in various passages of the Septuagint, or the greek translated Old Testament. However nowhere are these words found in the context of New Testament Salvation. Remember Philip and the Etheopian Eunuch? After Philip taught the Eunuch the Gospel, the Eunuch wanted to get baptized, they stopped the chariot they were traveling in near some body of water, and the passage in Acts 8:38-39, describes the two as going down into the water, the eunuch being immersed, and then them coming up out of the water. Sprinkling/Pouring was not the way baptism was conducted in the 1st
What is Baptism?
Some time ago, i was watching a movie based on the life of Christ and i remember coming to the part where it depicts Jesus being baptized by his cousin, John. John took a wooden cup, filled it with water …show more content…
Think about this; how can one be buried, immersed (baptized) by simply being sprinkled or upon? At a funeral, i 've never seen a handful of dirt thrown on a casket and the job is considered done and the casket is considered buried. it doesn 't make sense. so how can we associate pour/sprinkle with The greek words for Pour or Sprinkle are Cheo (Pour) and Rhantizo (Sprinkle), which can be find in various passages of the Septuagint, or the greek translated Old Testament. However nowhere are these words found in the context of New Testament Salvation. Remember Philip and the Etheopian Eunuch? After Philip taught the Eunuch the Gospel, the Eunuch wanted to get baptized, they stopped the chariot they were traveling in near some body of water, and the passage in Acts 8:38-39, describes the two as going down into the water, the eunuch being immersed, and then them coming up out of the water. Sprinkling/Pouring was not the way baptism was conducted in the 1st