Baptism is a significant Christian practice rooted in the New Testament, symbolizing a believer’s faith in Jesus Christ through the act of full immersion in water. It represents in pictorial form that one receives the gospel, or death, burial, and resurrection of Christ as being God’s Salvation offered for the sin of the world. While baptism is an important step of obedience, and a public declaration of faith. Salvation itself is attained through faith in Jesus, not through the ritual. The authority to baptize originated from God, and is still the work of God through Christ’s church. In that way by God’s authority and name is perpetuated alway even unto the end of the world, His ordinance remains God’s work of righteousness and not a work of the men.
In the following post we will discuss the meanings and methods of Baptism.
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