Posted on 04/06/2005 4:58:50 PM PDT by GospelUnion
The semantics of immersion Some good conversation has come up lately about baptism. For the sake of clarity, I'm simply going to refer to it as immersion, because that is what the word meant to the first century believers. Why it has been transliterated in most Bibles rather than translated into English, I don't know. But the meaning of the word is really not in dispute by anyone.
The semantics of Christian immersion is far more divisive than the Biblical treatment of the subject. No doubt some will read a few sentences and either assume I'm one "position" or the other and move on. But I hope all "sides" of this issue can recognize that we're all on the same "side"--Jesus Christ's. It's just that like so many areas of "theology," men have a way of complicating things and making the Bible less understandable.
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