1 of 10 ; Water Baptism symbolizes death and resurrection

 Water Baptism in the name of Jesus Christ 

Baptism is symbolic of death, burial, and resurrection. The Father and the Holy Spirit neither died, nor were buried.

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Water Baptism symbolizes death and resurrection

Water baptism represents death, burial, and resurrection back to life.

Trinitarians speak of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.

The Bible never says "God the Son" and "God the Holy Ghost". That is man-made fiction.

The Old Testament never speaks of "God the Father". Trinitarians cannot explain why.

The Father never died nor was He buried. The Holy Ghost never died nor was He buried.

So what did God the Father and God the Holy Spirit have to do with the water baptism?

Nothing, if they are separate Persons from the Son.

The Name Jehovah dominates the Old Testament, and the Name of Jesus is never mentioned in the Old Testament.

The Name Jesus dominates the New Testament, and the Name of Jehovah is never mentioned in the New Testament.

Trinitarians cannot explain this.

The Greek word "baptize" means to immerse or submerge.

Baptism is symbolic of death and burial under earth.

A person is "buried" underwater, where water symbolizes the earth that the corpse has been buried under. Underwater you cannot breathe, just like a corpse that cannot breathe.

ROMANS 6:3

Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so, we also should walk in newness of life.

:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

Baptism in water symbolizes burying the old sinful self in a grave covered with earth. Then a new person, with the Spirit of Christ inside that person, rises out of the watery "grave" to begin a new life focused on the Word of God and on the Holy Spirit of God, not on the things of the flesh and of the world.

There are numerous types of water baptism in modern-day churches. Many of them wanting to get away from the physical messiness and inconvenience of full immersion. So "baptism" by sprinkling or by partial immersion is popular. But, we do not bury anyone by sprinkling soil over them or partly immersing their bodies in a grave.

Many baptize unsaved people, but the apostle Peter did not do this.

ACTS 2:38

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Notice the order—first repentance and then the burial of baptism.

True repentance means to die to one’s self. You can only bury someone who has already died.

Having repented and accepted Jesus Christ as your Saviour, your new faith is immediately put to a strong test.

Can you discern the Scriptural baptism of the Book of Acts from the whole variety of baptisms that are on offer by today’s churches?

This is a tough test that very few pass.

Let us consider some of the alternative church baptisms.

1. No water baptism at all. Based on the thief on the cross who went to Paradise without being baptized.

But being nailed to a cross, he had no chance of being baptized.

Secondly, the commission to baptize, which was given by Jesus, only came after His resurrection.

The thief on the cross never heard the command of Jesus to get baptized.

MATTHEW 28:19

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

"Teaching them". The idea of teaching is repeated twice to emphasize the importanceof understanding what the name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is. There must be something difficult to understand if we need to be taught. This is not as simple as it sounds.

Repeating a formula, "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost" without having any understanding of what that name is, simply implies that no teaching has been done.

Learning something off by heart, that we cannot explain, is not teaching.