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1 | What does baptism consist? | 1 John 5:6 | Rowdy | 113681 | ||
Don't you think this is one reason why the Devil tempted (successfully) King James into having the KJV Bible abused this way. King James didn't want to humble himself and submit to God's plan of salvation. Back in the 16th century, the Greek word, baptizo (sp?) had one single meaning: immersion. King James ordered his Bible scholars to "interpret" the word baptizo into something else and allow him some other way of getting into God's family of good, obedient christians. Either his way or they would lose their heads. This is fairly common knowledge in historical documents. So, their conclusion (solution) was to come up with the Anglicized word "baptize." Why? Indeed, why would so many people from the past, present and future discuss this tremendous controversy so much except at the temptation from the Devil? Do you think maybe, just maybe he thought "If I can't kill God's Son, if I can't kill His church, maybe I can deceive mankind into thinking they can change God's Plan of Salvation. They'll think they're in the family of God, listening to my only slightly perverted version of God's Word, just like I changed things just slightly with one word in the Garden of Eden." You may be thinking I'm placing far too much emphasis on this baptism business and I guess I'd have to agree with you EXCEPT this is what I see from God's Word. He placed tremendous emphasis throughout the OT on blood and set us (mankind) up to understand likewise in this dispensation. I'm not saying that we should rely on baptism as being a item of work on our part. I am saying that God wants us to see this as the point in which we contact His Son's blood in faith. We should see in accordance with Rom 6 that we put away the man of sin with Jesus' burial and rise up as a new creature with our sins forgiven then and afterwards by His Son's blood. You and most all the participants know the scriptures and know the phrase "remission of sins" is always associated with baptism and not with any other step of salvation. Tim, please understand, I'm not saying you are deceiving people or are in a team effort with the Devil. I am saying that Satan is an incredibly good liar and takes deception to an art form in excellence. What do you think? Please respond and God bless you. |
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2 | What does baptism consist? | 1 John 5:6 | stjones | 113692 | ||
Hi, Rowdy; Just as a point of reference, the American Heritage dictionary online gives the following etymology of "baptize": "Middle English baptizen, from Old French baptiser, from Late Latin baptzre, from Greek baptizein, from baptein, to dip." My Webster's New International Dictionary (2nd Ed. 1934, paper) gives a lengthier but similar history. At any rate, I don't know if King James was tempted by the Devil or not (I suppose he was; we all are). But I doubt he ordered anybody to invent a new pidgin-Greek word since the English word (and its nearly identical French predecessor) already existed well before the issuance of the original King James in 1611. It appears the "historical documents" are wrong about this, so I wonder if they may not be wrong about other aspects of this story as well. Peace and grace, Steve aka Indiana Jones |
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3 | What does baptism consist? | 1 John 5:6 | Searcher56 | 113699 | ||
Actually the word should be translated washings, as it is in some languages. Greek in consistent and English is very poor. | ||||||