W: baptize βαπτίζω baptizo
About 200 B.C., A Greek physician and poet wrote a recipe for making pickles. In it he used two words which are the center of the debate in Christian circles about baptism.
One is instructed to dip or 911 βάπτω bapto the cuke in boiling water. Please notice that the cuke is totally immersed, but removed from the water. All those who immerse, remove the person from the water. A churning river would add to the effect that the water was boiling. They bapto, they do not baptizo.
Being bapto-ed is just a symbol for the beginning of the process.
When the cuke is removed from the water, it is immersed AND REMAINS in the vinegar. Baptizo is remaining. This does not suggest that one is drowned literally in baptism, but that the dipping and removal from water is just the start of being immersed and remaining in his vinegar. [1] [2] Can you guess the symbol for vinegar? The word is 02558 חמץ chomets it is the same as 02557 חמץ chametz which is 'leaven'; a symbol for teaching.
Remain in his teaching. "...man doth not live by bread (the cross) only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. [3]
We do not use the Greek physician to dictate doctrine. We used him to help us understand the Greek words. The symbol of vinegar as teaching comes from the Hebrew word itself being the same as leaven. The doctrine comes from the referenced scriptures.
References
- ↑ Joh 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
- ↑ Joh 15:7 If ye abide (remain) in me (the Word and living water), and my words (water) abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
- ↑ De 8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every [word] that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
