The word baptism is a transliteration.
The word baptism is used different today than in the Bible.
Modern dictionaries define baptism as: "a Christian ceremony in which a small amount of water is placed on a person's head or in which a person's body is briefly placed under water" (Merriam-Webster's Learners Dictionary)
baptisma (Strong's #908): baptism," consisting of the processes of immersion, submersion and emergence (from bapto, "to dip") (Vines Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words)
Baptism is a burial (cf. Rom. 6:3-6; Col. 2:12). To bury we completely cover.
Baptism is never sprinkling or pouring it must be a complete immersions. Sprinkling and pouring are innovations of men not the revealed will of God. The Bible has words that refer to pouring and sprinkling but they are NOT used in connection with baptism.
The examples of John the Baptist (cf. John 3:23) and the Ethiopian eunuch (cf. Acts 8:38-39) show baptism as an immersion .
Sprinkling and pouring have no example or command to follow.
Which type of baptism is taught by the Bible for salvation
One Baptism binding on you and I today (cf. Eph. 4:4-6)
John's Baptism
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