The word "baptize is a transliteration of the original Greek word "baptizo". The English form simply drops the "o" and inserts an "e".
To transliterate a word is to simply replace it by creating a new word in the language to which the original word is being transliterated. This means that the new word, which in this case is "baptize" bears the exact same definition as the did the word "baptizo" from which it was transliterated.
Both our English word "baptize" and the original word "baptizo" mean to place one item, or entity, into another item or entity for the purpose of altering the state of that item or entity.
An example is placing a cucumber into brine so as to change it into a pickle.
An item that has been "baptized" will be forever altered. Another example is that a person who has been baptized into Christ (Put on Christ like a robe) has been eternally saved.
I will provide further examples as this lesson progresses.
I will provide further examples as this lesson progresses.
I will list the verses in which Jesus is said to have used the term baptize in the order they appear in the New Testament: Matthew, 20:22-23, "But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be BAPTIZED with the BAPTISM that I am BAPTIZED with? They say unto him, We are able. And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be BAPTIZED with the BAPTISM that I am BAPTIZED with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father."
As we can see a form of the term baptize is used six times.
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:" This usage brings the total to seven number of times Jesus used the term to seven.(I will explain this usage at the end of this lesson.)
Mark 10:38-39, "But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be BAPTIZED with the BAPTISM that I am BAPTIZED with? And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the BAPTISM that I am BAPTIZED withal shall ye be BAPTIZED:"
As we can see these usages are duplicates of the Matthew account and therefore can't figure into the total.
As we can see these usages are duplicates of the Matthew account and therefore can't figure into the total.
Mark 16:16, "He that believeth and is BAPTIZED shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." This usage is Marks account of what Jesus said just before He ascended and is a duplicate usage of the term applied in the account given in Matthew 28:19.
Luke 12:50, "But I have a BAPTISM to be BAPTIZED with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!" These two usages make nine the total number of times Jesus used any form of the term "baptize".
All six of the usages in Matt. 20:22-23 are clearly referring to the upcoming sacrificial ordeal Jesus was about to undergo, none of those six, in any way refer to the use of water.
All six of the usages in Matt. 20:22-23 are clearly referring to the upcoming sacrificial ordeal Jesus was about to undergo, none of those six, in any way refer to the use of water.
In Luke 12:50, by using the terms "baptism" and "baptize" it is obvious that Jesus is again referring to His upcoming sacrificial ordeal.
The ninth time Jesus used a form of the term baptize appears in Matthew 28:19 wherein He says, "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, BAPTIZING them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:"
In this usage Jesus is simply commanding His Apostles to go and teach, to make new disciples and to teach them to obey all things He had told them.
The term "baptizing" as it is applied in this verse, means to place, by teaching, those newly converted disciples into the security of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. (As being "baptized into Christ" or to "put on Christ".
There is NOTHING in the context of this text that implies that one should be baptized into water and thereby baptized into the Father, the Son, and the Holy ghost. That assertion makes no sense.
Jesus used some grammatical form of the term "baptize" nine total times during His entire ministry, NOT ONCE did He use it in reference to water.~
NOTE:There will be other discussions of this same subjest as these lessons progress.
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