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from greek noun –>
βάπτισμα
(baptisma)
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(‘baptism’ is a ‘christian rite’ of ‘admission’ + ‘adoption’, almost invariably with the use of ‘water’, into ‘christianity’)
(the ‘synoptic gospels’ recount that ‘john the baptist’ baptized ‘jesus’)
(‘baptism’ is considered a ‘sacrament’ in most ‘churches’)
(and an ‘ordinance’ in some other ‘churches’)
(‘baptism’ is also called ‘christening’)
(although some reserve the word “christening” for the ‘baptism’ of ‘infants’)
(it has also given its name to the baptist (‘churches’ / ‘denominations’))
(the usual form of ‘baptism’ among the earliest ‘christians’ involved the candidate’s ‘immersion’, either ‘totally’ (as in “submerged completely under the water”) or ‘partially’ (‘standing’ or ‘kneeling’ in ‘water’ while (more) water was poured on ‘him’ (or her)))
(john the baptist’s use of a ‘deep river’ (the ‘river jordan’?) for his ‘baptizing suggests ‘immersion’)
(“the fact that he chose a ‘permanent’ (and ‘deep’) river suggests that more than a ‘token quantity’ of ‘water’ was needed, and both the preposition ‘in’ (the ‘jordan’) and the basic meaning of the verb ‘baptize’ probably indicate ‘immersion’)
(in ‘verse 16’, ‘matthew’ will speak of jesus ‘coming up out of the water’)
(‘phillip’ and ‘the eunuch’ (ha!) also went down and came up out of water (‘acts 8:38 – 8:39’))
(‘paptism’ is likened unto a ‘burial’ in ‘romans 6:3’)
(“dip” is translated from baptō (βάπτω))
(the ‘traditional depiction’ in ‘christian art’ of ‘john the baptist’ pouring water over jesus’ head may therefore be based on ‘later christian practice’)
(‘pictorial’ and ‘archaeological’ evidence of ‘christian baptism’ from the ‘3rd century onward’ indicates that a ‘normal form’ was to have the ‘candidate’ stand in ‘water’ while more water was poured over the ‘upper body’)
(other “common forms of ‘baptism'” now in use include “pouring ‘water’ 3 times on the ‘forehead’, a method called ‘affusion’)
(‘martyrdom’ was identified early in ‘church history’ as “baptism by blood”, enabling the ‘salvation’ of ‘martyrs’ who had not been ‘baptized by water’)
(later, the ‘catholic church’ identified a ‘baptism of desire’, by which those preparing for ‘baptism’ who die before actually receiving the ‘sacrament’ are considered ‘saved’)
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(“thanks! whew! what a relief! i didn’t know that the church had become so ‘lenient’!”)
(“playing ‘catchup’ with ‘the times’)
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(“again…whew! thanks again for being such a lenient pushover sweet jesus” had you not…have you not?…’haves’ and ‘have nots’)
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(as evidenced also in the common christian practice of ‘infant baptism’, ‘christians’ universally regarded ‘baptism’ as in some sense ‘necessary’ for ‘salvation’, until ‘huldrych zwingli’ (‘1484’ – ‘1531’) denied its ‘necessity’ in the ’16th century’)
(‘quakers’ and the ‘salvation army’ practice ‘baptism’ with the ‘holy spirit’ instead of ‘baptism’ with ‘water’)
(among ‘denomination’s that practice ‘baptism’ by ‘water’, ‘differences’ occur in the ‘manner’ and ‘mode’ of ‘baptizing’ and in the understanding of the ‘significance’ of the ‘rite’)
(most christians baptize “in the name of the ”father’, and of the ‘son’, and of the ‘holy spirit'” (following the ‘great commission’), but some baptize in jesus’ name only)
(much more than half of all ‘christians’ baptize ‘infants’ (how much ‘more’?); many others regard only a ‘believer’s baptism’ as a ‘true baptism’)
“for they know not what they do…”
(the term “baptism” has also been used ‘metaphorically’ to refer to any ‘ceremony’, ‘trial’, or ‘experience’ by which a person is ‘initiated’, ‘purified’, or ‘given a name’)
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