{"id":2670,"date":"2026-02-06T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godhonesttruth.com\/wp\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2026-02-07T17:22:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:22:39","slug":"what-is-baptism-according-to-the-bible-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godhonesttruth.com\/wp\/2026\/02\/06\/what-is-baptism-according-to-the-bible-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Baptism According to the Bible? 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R75tLrct1U8?si=WiDfVzGoaumv5cTM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vRHBotwngMEEU_cXrN_DrAStadw2V8j_GssOKTf8dThrmS1cAgKbcngWqVY-bRgKMSkhJrOdKkbcNBt\/pubembed?start=false&#038;loop=false&#038;delayms=3000\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"960\" height=\"569\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baptism is not a church ritual\u2014it is a decisive, biblical act of obedience that marks the beginning of a transformed life. If you\u2019ve ever felt uncertain, confused, or misinformed about baptism, this teaching will ground you in truth and cut through tradition with clarity. We invite you to cast aside the confusion of man-made traditions and embrace the profound clarity of Scripture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many people approach Baptism with confusion, wondering if it&#8217;s merely a tradition, a symbolic act, or something far more meaningful that connects you directly to the death, burial, and resurrection of Yeshua. In this teaching we walk you through what Scripture actually says about baptism.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019re serious about understanding Christianity as the Bible presents it\u2014and not as tradition has reshaped it\u2014this teaching is for you. Come with us as we learn the God Honest Truth about baptism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">#Baptism #BiblicalBaptism #WhatIsBaptism #ChristianBaptism #GodHonestTruth<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vQPyrLz5lvOtcPnUj0ivednE3cEtHwKzOT7v7ZSi3bUjq0GhpziRxo1yzdAD1aT4A0CtO3pnW2i6E5v\/pub?embedded=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"800\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Transcript<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1><b>Teaching Introduction<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, if you&#8217;ve been to church or been around other Christians, you have heard the word baptism before, you even think you might know what baptism means. But unfortunately, what you think it means probably comes from your tradition. In this teaching, we&#8217;re going to be looking at what the scriptures actually say about what baptism is, whether or not it is required for salvation, who can perform baptism, and we&#8217;re going to look at examples and historical evidence of how they did it back in the first, second, third, and fourth centuries. You don&#8217;t want to miss a moment of this if you truly want to further your education, especially on the subject of baptism. All of that coming up right now.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><b>Video Start<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, this teaching is all about baptism and what is baptism according to scripture or according to the Bible. And we&#8217;re going to definitely be answering that question we posed earlier if you&#8217;re watching the live stream as to is baptism required or necessary for salvation. So definitely make sure to stay tuned for that. But first I just wanted to let everyone know that there&#8217;s going to be a bunch of information coming up in this particular teaching. But there&#8217;s a whole bunch that we didn&#8217;t get into, especially some of the arguments on both sides of various issues that surround this particular subject. and lots of other stuff. So, if you would like more information, go to our website at godhonesttruth.com. Click on the post for this particular episode. There you&#8217;ll be able to find the on demand video you see here on your screen. You&#8217;ll be able to see the draw slides for this particular episode. You also find the notes which has a bunch more information than what we&#8217;re going to present here. And you&#8217;ll also find the transcript if that&#8217;s helpful for you. All that is on www.godhonesttruth.com. godhonesttruth.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, a much easier way to get to that article post is to go down below in the description and there you&#8217;ll find a convenient link that we have provided for you and you just simply click on that link. It&#8217;ll take you directly to that article post. No typing, no hunting for it, nothing like that. It&#8217;s all down there in that convenient link in the description and that should be down there whether you&#8217;re watching on a video platform or an audio podcasting platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, with that being said, there is also a whole bunch of other stuff that can go into this subject of baptism. And there&#8217;s a whole bunch that we cut out that we really wanted to get in there, but for the sake of time and not making it two or three hours, we cut it out. So, what we have decided is to instead redo this at a later date, probably next year or maybe the end of this year, and do it as a series of videos. So that way it&#8217;s not one big long video, but this will be a series of videos covering various aspects and topics surrounding the subject of baptism. So definitely look for that coming up in the near future, either later this year or coming up next year in next year&#8217;s schedule.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><b>Baptism Basics<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As far as studying baptism and learning about what baptism is, we actually need to learn well what baptism is. So what is baptism? The etymology of the word we have now in English of baptism according to etymonline says quote baptize the verb baptize is to administer the rite of baptism to from the 1300 old French baptisier to be baptized or baptized give a name to from Latin baptisare from Greek baptizein immerse or dip in water figuratively be over one&#8217;s head and over one&#8217;s head rather to be soaked as in wine. You can kind of get the metaphor there. And it comes from baptein meaning to dip, steep, dye, color. The Christian baptism originally was a full immersion. End quote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, also pay special attention to that as we go through the information that we&#8217;re going to present to you. Both the historical information and especially the scriptural information that we give to you during this teaching. Pay particular attention as to what the baptism or how it&#8217;s done, the method of baptizing. Is it the immersion in water? Is it pouring of water from a vessel? or is it sprinkling of water? We&#8217;ll get it all into that in just a moment. But continue sending on with the basics from etymology world.com from old English I&#8217;m sorry quote from old English baptism or bapism which in turn comes from late Latin baptismos the latinization of the Greek word baptismos the act of immersing a person in water. In ancient Greece baptismos meant immersion or washing. In the New Testament, baptism is associated with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It was seen as a symbol of cleansing from sin. In the early church, baptism was typically performed by complete immersion in water. End quote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And finally, here is your nerdy information for this particular teaching. Here is your Strong&#8217;s number G907. And that is the Greek word baptizo. Baptizo. And Strong&#8217;s definition defines baptizo as to immerse, submerge, to make whelmed, fully wet, baptist, baptize, or wash. From the Greek lexicon, properly to dip repeatedly, to immerse, submerge, to cleanse by dipping or submerging. To wash, to make clean with water metaphorically, to overwhelm and immersion in water performed as a sign of the removal from sin. The Greek English lexicon of the New Testament defines baptizo as to wash in some context, possibly by dipping into water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that is the Greek word baptizo. And you saw the definitions there. I&#8217;m giving you all the definitions beforehand so that when we read those in scripture and I point out to you where this word actually occurs in scripture, you&#8217;ll know what it actually means. This Greek word baptizo means what? Do you have it now? It means submersion or immersion. Go back and look at that if you don&#8217;t haven&#8217;t already. Go to our website, go on the slides for yourself and stop at those particular slides there. You&#8217;ll see it is defined in the dictionaries and in the lexicons etc etc. Baptize or baptizo means immersion or submersion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then we go on to look at another word. This is Strongs G909. And this is the Greek word baptismos. Very very similar and it actually comes from the previous word from Strong&#8217;s G907. But baptismos according to Strong&#8217;s definition means ablution, baptism or washing. The Greek lexicon a washing purification affected by means of water of the washings prescribed to the by the Mosaic law from the Greek English lexicon of the New Testament to wash to wash to purify washing or purification.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now that baptizo occurs a lot more often than this word baptismos does but they pretty much mean the exact same thing. Now when we talk about the foundation or the basics of baptism we have to get into the methods at least a cursory overview of the various methods that are used at least nowadays for the procedure or the rite of baptism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First off, we have the age-old tradition of immersion or submersion as it is. This is practiced by a lot of different denominations nowadays. I have a list of a few out right here. And this is not to be taken as gospel as far as the list of denominations because as we all know, every denomination is different and even different congregations within a denomination is different. So you might see one denomination listed here and say, &#8220;Oh, let&#8217;s they don&#8217;t use immersion. They use, you know, the pouring or sprinkling.&#8221; Okay, that&#8217;s fine. It&#8217;s probably do. And I&#8217;m not saying they don&#8217;t. It&#8217;s just generally this is what the denominations use the ones that are listed out here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But as far as immersion goes, you can find this in like with the Baptist, the church of Christ, uh restoration movement, churches, assembly of God, church of God, Pentecostal holiness, 7th Day Adventist, Anabaptist, Methodists, Nazarines, etc., etc. And like I said, this can go down into a lot more subdenominations because the Anabaptists go into the Mennonites, the Amish, etc., etc. And like I said, every every different congregation has a different way of doing things that differs slightly from the parent organization. So yeah, take it as you will. This is just a general list of churches or denominations that use immersion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, as far as affusion or pouring goes, that means not sprinkling, but pouring. taking a vessel and pouring it over someone. This would be the Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican or Episcopal, Lutheran and United Church of Christ, Moravian, etc., etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And sprinkling is something that is from what I found out is actually on the decline as far as being in use, but is still going on today. And some of the people who use sprinkling for baptism are the Presbyterians, the Anglicans or Episcopalians, Episcopalians, sorry, the Lutherans, United Church of Christ, Roman Catholics, Moravians, etc., etc. And if you&#8217;ll notice, some of these I have listed more than once. And again, it goes back to the whole concept that some parts of each particular denomination might do things a little bit differently. And baptizing is sometimes different like that as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><b>Baptism Before Messiah<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now when I was going to a mainstream Baptist church, one mainstream church, Christian church, baptism was something that I used to think and maybe it was just me or maybe it was actually taught like this, but baptism was taught as something that started with the New Testament that you find it with John the Baptist and that&#8217;s where it really got going and then Jesus took over and the apostles continued and etc., etc. However, that&#8217;s not entirely true or accurate. In fact, baptisms were going on long before the time of Messiah, long before the time of John the Baptist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We find baptisms and the act of baptizing oneself or baptizing others all through the Tanakh, all the way back even in the Torah. We look in Genesis 7 11-12 and 17-20. In the 600th year of Noah&#8217;s life, in the second new moon, the 17th day of the moon, on that day, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened, and the rain was on the earth 40 days and 40 nights. And the flood was on the earth 40 days. And the waters increased and lifted up the ark. And it rose high above the earth. And the waters were mighty and greatly increased on the earth. And the ark moved about on the surface of the waters. And the waters were exceedingly mighty on the earth. And all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered. The mountains became mighty 15 cubits upward. And the mountains were covered. that comes from Genesis 7 all the way back in the time of Noah even.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So this isn&#8217;t saying you know a particular person got baptized but we can see the imagery here of Yahweh actually baptizing the earth and pretty much everything that lived on it except for Noah, everyone in the ark. Everyone got baptized. the earth got baptized and washed from the evil and the sinfulness that was rampant upon the earth at that time. Of course, as we know, it eventually came back up and etc, etc. But the great flood, the flood of Noah&#8217;s time is, at least in my opinion interpretation, an example of baptizing. And you&#8217;ll see here it says that the whole earth, the high mountains were covered. They weren&#8217;t sprinkled with rain. They were covered. You can read this whole story about knowing the flood and it says the waters came up from below. The waters came down from above and it was hitting from both sides and it&#8217;s totally covered. And that is really a good imagery of what goes on when we are baptized nowadays. And we&#8217;ll get into all that more as we get into the Brit Hadasha portion of it. Here you can see that the entire earth was baptized during the great flood of Noah&#8217;s time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking at Exodus 29:4, this is for the ordination of the initial priest. Actually, it says here in Exodus 29:4, &#8220;Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of appointment and wash them with water.&#8221; Now this Hebrew word here is Strongs H7364. It is the Hebrew word rachatz. Rachatz and it means to lave the whole or part of the thing to bathe or to wash. Brown Driver Briggs defines it as to wash, wash off, wash away, bathe, etc., etc. So this gives the exact same imagery that we&#8217;re looking at with the Greek words baptizo and baptismos. And even in one particular translation I found this is called the Exodus companion Bible here they&#8217;ve got for 294 Exodus 294 and oblate Aaron and his sons do the opening of the tent of the congregation and baptize them with water. I think it&#8217;s fairly it&#8217;s accurate but it&#8217;s kind of seems odd to us. We&#8217;re not used to you know seeing that back then. But hey, if the word fits, it fits. However, this is the only translation I&#8217;ve been able to find that actually uses the word baptize in this particular verse. I know nothing about the translation. I just thought it was neat and put it up there for your enjoyment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moving on to Leviticus 14 8-9. This is talking about leprosy and ending on the um tail end of leprosy. But it says here in Leviticus chapter 14, &#8220;And he who is to be cleansed shall wash his garments and shall shave off all his hair and wash himself in water and shall be clean. And on the seventh day it shall be that he shaves all the hair of off his head and his beard and his eyebrows. And he shall wash his garments and wash his body in water and shall be clean.&#8221; So for leprosy and we&#8217;ll see that again in another example of leprosy but for showing that the leprosy is done away with the whoever was afflicted baptizes himself or washes himself as part of this whole process of leprosy and showing that he is no longer afflicted with leprosy. This also goes on for a great many other things including of childbirth exal periods etc etc but also as you might guess for dead bodies as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We look in numbers chapter 19 14-9. This is the Torah when a man dies in a tent. A clean man shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and shall sprinkle it on the tent and on all the vessels and on the beings who were there. the clean one shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day and on the seventh day he shall cleanse himself and shall wash his garment and bathe in water. So you kind of seeing a theme here. When something is wrong and then we want to make ourselves right or get cleansed, we baptize as the those within Judaism might call it undergo a mikvah. So yeah, this was going on long before John the Baptist ever come on the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even the prophet Elisha, not Elijah, but Elisha told someone to go and wash themselves or bathe or baptize themselves because of leprosy. And this story you can find in 2 Kings chapter 5. This comes from verses 10 and 14. And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, &#8220;Go, and you shall wash seven times in the yarden, that your flesh might be restored to you and be clean.&#8221; Then he went down and dipped seven times in the yarden, according to the word of the man of Elohim. And his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now this first word here for wash when Elisha is telling him to go wash. That&#8217;s the word we looked at just previously. The Hebrew word rachatz there is a different word here used in the Hebrew for dipped when it says that the man went down and dipped seven times in the yarden. That is the Hebrew word uh sorry Strongs H2881 the Hebrew word tabal. Tabal that means to dip or to plunge but it gives the exact same meaning as that previous word rachatz interestingly enough in the Septuagint the Greek word that is used here is Strong&#8217;s G907 which we&#8217;ve already learned the Greek word baptizo meaning to immerse or submerge but I illustrate this for you because it shows the synonymous nature of both washing and baptizing. Elisha tells him to go wash. Then we see him go and baptizo himself or wash or dip himself seven times in the yarden. So we can see how it&#8217;s pretty much synonymous with washing. As long as it&#8217;s submersion or immersion, whatever you want to call it, that would be baptizing. And it&#8217;s something he did himself. It wasn&#8217;t something that was done by a high priest. It wasn&#8217;t someone that was had all sorts of different degrees from a cemetery or seminary. It&#8217;s just himself. So take note of that as well because that&#8217;s going to come up as a point here and near the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now looking at the universal Jewish encyclopedia or the entry on baptism. Quote, &#8220;During the early period of Israelite history down to the destruction of the first temple, a full immersion of the body or ritual dipping in running water was a necessary part of the process of purification from such defilements as contact with the dead, the disease of leprosy, an unclean animal, or childbirth.&#8221; End quote. immersion even before John the Baptist. Baptism was going on long before John the Baptist way way back into the Tanakh in the Torah even back in the time of Noah as we saw. So yeah, baptism has been around for a long long time now just to get back on that point we were talking about earlier about mikvah. Here is some additional information about mikvah. This is something that really changed what I thought about mikvah. I thought I knew what mikvah was. I thought it was synonymous with baptism. And it&#8217;s there&#8217;s a nuance there that makes it a little bit different. And hopefully this makes it a little bit more clear because it did for me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But coming from the encyclopedia Judaica, quote, mikvah, a pool or bath of clear water, immersion in which renders ritually clean a person who has become ritually unclean. Large numbers of stepped and plastered mikvaot have been found in excavations in Jerusalem and outlying villages as well as at various rural locations. Most of the installations in Jerusalem were in basement of private dwellings and therefore must have served the specific domestic needs of the city inhabitants. The average size of the mikvah suggests that ritual bathing was ordinarily practiced individually. The location of Mikvaot within the basement of private dwellings suggests this purification was done regularly and whenever deemed necessary. End quote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So you can see this was a regular thing. It wasn&#8217;t just a once in a-lifetime thing. It wasn&#8217;t a once a year thing. It&#8217;s almost like it was done on a weekly or even sometimes daily basis. It says it was done whenever it was deemed necessary. Now that is absolutely astounding. I never knew that. I knew there was mikvah pools at in Jerusalem near the temple and I knew there were mikvah pools in Qumran uh with the Essenes, but until I started doing this study, uh this was oh gosh, I don&#8217;t know how long ago. But this really opened my eyes to what a mikvah was. It was more common than I thought. And it also showed me that a mikvah technically is not baptism. is the pool or the spot where you go to be baptized. Uh I know a lot of people use it interchangeably with baptizing or baptism, but technically it&#8217;s not. If you still use it that way, that&#8217;s fine. I do. But you know the uh technical specifications on what a mikvah is now. It&#8217;s the actual pool or place, not the baptism itself. So to say mikvah is almost like saying baptismal pool. But yeah, if anybody says, you know, we got mikvahed, well, we know what you mean. So, it is what it is. It&#8217;s just kind of was the tradition that we come upon. But that gives you a good sense of baptism before John the Baptist. And you can find a lot more information, like I said, and the notes that we have provided for you on godhonesttruth.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><b>Baptism in the Apostolic Age<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That brings us now into the apostolic age during the time of John the Baptist during the time that Yeshua walked here on the earth during the time of the apostles and the disciples etc etc. This is just talking about the time of the Brit Hadasha not necessarily getting into the time after the Brit Hadasha during the early church time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So now looking at baptism in the apostolic age or baptism in the Brit Hadasha first let&#8217;s look at how the word is used in Luke 11:38. And this is going to give you a better sense of how it&#8217;s used in Greek and what it actually means. And here in Luke 11:38 it says, &#8220;And when the Pharisees saw it, he marveled. I&#8217;m sorry. When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he did not first wash before dinner.&#8221; Now this word for wash here is the Greek word baptizo. And what does baptizo mean? It means to submerge or to baptize or to immerse. And that&#8217;s what you do when you wash your hands before you eat. You submerge your hands. And your hands are completely covered in water in order to wash them and to clean them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interestingly enough, there are several translations that do not use the word wash, but instead they use the word baptized. For instance, the Murdock translation has it the end part as he did not previously baptize before dinner. The Anderson translation says it like this. Had not first immersed himself before dinner. And the Young&#8217;s literal yeah Young&#8217;s literal translation has did not first baptize himself before dinner. So you can see various ways that it can be translated but this word still means to immerse to submerge and we can see the various usage uh various usages that can be had with this one word whether it be washing immersion baptizing etc etc but it&#8217;s still the same concept of being covered with water not just sprinkled or poured but covered but that&#8217;s a good look here at Luke 11:38 and how this word can be used in various contexts and how it can be translated differently in various contexts throughout the Brit Hadasha going on and looking at Matthew 28 16-20 and this is probably one of the most famous verses on baptism you probably know it by heart but do you know the full context surrounding that that&#8217;s where we&#8217;re going to get at here in just a moment but Matthew 28 16-20 and the 11 taught ones went away into Galilee to the mountain which Yeshua had appointed for them. And when they saw him, they bowed to him, but some doubted. And Yeshua came up and spoke to them, saying, &#8220;All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make taught ones of all the nations, immersing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the set apart spirit, teaching them to guard all that I have commanded you. And see, I am with you always until the end of the age. Amen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, this is very, very interesting because this sets the stage for things we&#8217;re going to look at here in just a moment as we go a little bit past the time of the Brit Hadasha on up into today&#8217;s age. And it really sets a contrast between this particular section of scripture and the rest of these scriptures that we&#8217;re going to look at here in just a moment. to give you a taste of what we&#8217;re about to get into this command here in Matthew 28 specifically verse 19 how it&#8217;s recorded here and how it&#8217;s recorded in all the manuscripts we have and out of the tradition that we&#8217;ve been handed down it says that immerse them or baptize them in the name of the father and of the son and of the set apart spirit or the holy spirit this is odd and I I only say that because I know what&#8217;s coming up here in just a minute. And you&#8217;ll see why I&#8217;m saying that, too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This phrasing is odd because this is pretty much the only time this is ever found in all of scripture where baptizing is done in the name of the father and the son, the holy spirit. For instance, the parallel or the sister passages if you would in the rest of the canonical gospels. If we look at that in Mark 16, specifically verses 15-16, it reads here, &#8220;And he said to them, go into all the world and proclaim the good news to every creature. He who has believed and has been immersed shall be saved, but he who has not believed shall be condemned.&#8221; There&#8217;s nothing about baptizing anyone in the name of the Father and of Son and of the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit. So it&#8217;s completely left out in the ending of Mark in the ending of Luke in Luke 24 46 and 47. And Yeshua said to them, &#8220;Thus it has been written, and so it was necessary for the Messiah to suffer and to rise again from the dead the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations.&#8221; So here it there&#8217;s no nothing about baptizing but we do have a proclamation and in a name but it&#8217;s not the name of the father son and holy spirit or set apart spirit is in the name of Yeshua. So take note of that too neither Mark nor Luke and go look these up for yourself. Look at the surrounding context. See if you can find it cuz I looked hard to do my due diligence and did not find it. So if you can find it, please let us know. But it&#8217;s as it stands right now, it&#8217;s not there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then looking at the end of John in this very same time frame in the book of John as it relates to the book of Matthew, but in John 20:31, but these have been written so that you believe that Yeshua is the Messiah, the son of Elohim, and that believing you might possess life in his name. The entire great commission, as it&#8217;s so-called, is not even there. It&#8217;s not telling people to go out and baptize or make disciples or etc etc. And it&#8217;s not even got the name of the father, son, holy spirit part either. So that entire thing is left off John. In fact, John here says that the the reason why he wrote his gospel and it&#8217;s he tells you the reason. It&#8217;s not because he wants to increase church membership. It&#8217;s not because he wants to increase the power of the coming church. No, nothing like that. He says he wrote this gospel of John so that you believe that Yeshua is the Messiah, the son of Elohim, and that believing you might possess life in his name. So what does this tell us? This is gives us a clue for our study on baptism. John here thinks it is important to know that we believe in the Messiah Yeshua and the son of Elohim and that by believing in him that we might possess life in his name that we might possess salvation. So when John here is describing salvation and what it is to get salvation there&#8217;s nothing here about baptizing. Interesting, right? And remember that, put that in your notes because we&#8217;re going to get into that as we go on further into this particular study.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, what&#8217;s interesting about Matthew 28:19, not only is it not found in the parallel passages in the rest of the canonical gospels, it&#8217;s also it&#8217;s not found in what&#8217;s called the Shem Tov either. This come this is the uh Shem Tov Hebrew of Matthew the Hebrew gospel of Matthew as translated by George Howard and it says here in verses 18 19 and 20 for Matthew chapter 28 it says Jesus drew near to them and said to them to me has been given all power in heaven and earth go and teach them to carry out all the things which I have commanded you forever. Now, take this with a grain of salt because the Shem Tov is supposed to be the original Gospel of Matthew, which was supposedly originally written in Hebrew. From my interpretation and from my understanding, that would make a lot of sense. It&#8217;s understandable that the book of Matthew would be written in Hebrew. Is the Shem Tov the original Hebrew book of Matthew? That&#8217;s up for debate because the earliest example we have comes from uh the medieval ages I think. So it doesn&#8217;t even date back as early as the Greek texts we have. So as of right now all the Greek all what we have the evidence of is that the original Brit Hadasha or new testament was written in Greek. And I am definitely not saying that the apostles wrote in Greek and wrote the original autographs or the original works in Greek. I&#8217;m not saying that. I&#8217;m just saying all the evidence we have points to that being the case. That doesn&#8217;t mean that is actual reality. So the Shem Tov is very very interesting but it&#8217;s not definitive. However, it&#8217;s very interesting to note that this supposed Hebrew Gospel of Matthew does not have that baptizing part there about baptizing in the name of the father, son, and holy spirit or set apart spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, we&#8217;ll get into some more on that and how it&#8217;s lines up or doesn&#8217;t line up with the rest of scripture and with the early church here in just a minute, but just know that the Shem Tov does not include a baptizing in the name of the father, son, and holy spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now earlier in Matthew, we also have what&#8217;s called the Lord&#8217;s Prayer or the Master&#8217;s Prayer or the Our Father, whichever tradition was handed down to you, the naming of it. But as it&#8217;s presented in the book of Matthew, there is decent evidence to show that that was actually the ending of the Lord&#8217;s Prayer was actually added to the original work of Matthew. I&#8217;m still doing studying on that, so I&#8217;ll let you know further on. And if we do conclude through our research that it was added on to it. We&#8217;ll cut that out from the liturgy, but the the majority of the Lord&#8217;s Prayer will still be there. It&#8217;s just that very last ending part. And I know a lot of fundamentalists down here in the southeastern parts of America are going to take issue with this, but there is evidence that some of the translations that been handed down to us have been modified and added to over the years. Uh the Comma Johanneum is one good example that was proven to be an addition to um the book of 1 John and that comes up in 1 John 5:7. If you look at the King James version, 1 John 5:7 is a lot different than the translations that we have nowadays because now we know that 1 John 5:7 was actually added to scripture. We also know that various passages within Mark are not authentic as it has traditionally been put to us and it was actually added to it. So there&#8217;s various things there that as time goes on we get back to more of an original authentic scripture but we&#8217;ve got to be willing to understand and accept that mankind has gotten his dirty little paws on it over the two millennia since Yeshua. And we&#8217;ve got to understand that&#8217;s happened and we&#8217;ve got to have a heart for the actual true scriptures and get rid of all the fluff and things that was added to it. So yeah, that&#8217;s just to say that we there is some evidence to show that the book of Matthew um was modified. When it comes to Matthew 28:19, I have not uncovered any evidence to suggest that that was modified or added to it. So all the evidence we have now is that was the original wording and the way that Matthew originally put it. So until proven otherwise, we&#8217;re going to let that stand as gospel. Oh yeah. But anyways, that was uh baptism and the book of Matthew, especially chapter 28 and verse 19. And we took a look at uh Matthew, the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew or supposedly the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, the Shem Tov Hebrew Matthew.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But moving on, let&#8217;s look at Acts chapter 2:38. And this is going to show you some of the contrast between what I was talking about with Matthew 28:19 and the rest of scripture here in Matthew, I&#8217;m sorry, Acts 2:38. And Kefa or Peter said to them, &#8220;Repent and let each one of you be immersed in the name of Yeshua Messiah for the forgiveness of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the set apart spirit.&#8221; Acts 19:5. And when they heard this, they were immersed into the name of the master Yeshua. Acts 22:16. And now, why do you delay? Rise up, be immersed, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of Yahweh. Romans 6:3. Or do you not know that as many of us as were immersed into Messiah Yeshua were immersed into his death? And then look at Acts 8 26-39. Oh, let&#8217;s go back one more. Sorry. So, etc., etc. So, every single time that you find, look in your translation, you&#8217;ve got look in other translations as well. But every single time that you go through and you look at how baptisms were performed in the Brit Hadasha or the Brit um yeah, aka New Testament, every single time it is always into the name of Yeshua, into the name of Jesus. Now, here there&#8217;s a misspelling here because it&#8217;s not actually uh being baptized into the name of Yahweh is actually calling on the name of Yahweh. So, it&#8217;s not really misspelling, but it&#8217;s yeah, you get the point. Anyways, every time that someone is baptized in the New Testament, it&#8217;s always into the name singular name of Yeshua or Jesus. It&#8217;s not like Matthew 28:19. So this brings up a good question which brings us back to that verse in Matthew is the why the discrepancy is that either a number one Yeshua got the formula wrong. Heaven forbid. Number two the disciples just were not trained properly and did not therefore did not do it properly. Highly doubt that is e uh the case either. Number three, another option is that it could be a modification to the scriptures or the original scriptures that were handed down to us like we saw before with things like the Comma Johanneum or the end of the Lord&#8217;s prayer. That is a possibility as well. There&#8217;s also another possibility is that Yeshua wasn&#8217;t actually giving a formula for baptism. he was actually doing a teaching do uh telling a parable uh etc etc. So there&#8217;s different options here as it goes but I do not think that Yeshua was teaching a formula for baptism because if he was and he was saying do it like this then the apostles everywhere else in scripture got it wrong and incorrect. Every single time the apostles go on and baptize someone, it&#8217;s always into the name of Yeshua.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, a very interesting point here, something else that you may not have known before. Look all throughout the Brit Hadasha all the way from Matthew through Revelation. Read every single verse and find where it is that Jesus baptized someone or that Yeshua baptized someone. You know how many times he did that? He did it a grand total number of zero times. Yeshua never baptized anyone. I didn&#8217;t know that before doing this study, but yeah, it is very interesting to see that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So now going on and looking at Acts chapter I&#8217;m sorry, Acts chapter 8 verses 26-39. And this kind of gets into the um how and why and when and etc etc. So pay special attention to this. This is a very illuminating passage when it comes to baptism. Acts chapter 20 Acts chapter 8 26-39. But a messenger of Yahweh spoke to Philip saying, &#8220;Arise and go toward the south.&#8221; And he arose and went and saw a man of Kush, a eunuch of great authority. And the spirit said to Philip, &#8220;Go near and join him in that chariot.&#8221; And Philip opening his mouth and beginning at this scripture brought to him the good news Yeshua. And as they were going on the way, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, &#8220;Look, water, what hinders me from being immersed?&#8221; And Philip said, &#8220;If you believe with all your heart, it is permitted.&#8221; And he answering said, &#8220;I believe the son of Elohim to be Yeshua the Messiah.&#8221; And he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he immersed himself. And when they came up out of the water, the spirit of Yahweh caught Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, for he went his way rejoicing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So here, this is interesting on a number of different points. Number one, he see Philip and he finds this eunuch. After he&#8217;s told to go a certain direction, he comes upon this eunuch and the eunuch is reading a scroll in Isaiah and he&#8217;s talks to Philip and Philip expounds from Isaiah on up into Jesus and brought brings him the good news. So the eunuch believes and so he is saved. When we look at Romans 10:9, etc., etc., it says that in order to obtain salvation, you have to believe in your heart that Yeshua, I&#8217;m sorry, you have to confess with your mouth that Yeshua is the Messiah and believe in your heart that Yahweh raised him on the third day. That is what&#8217;s required for salvation. That&#8217;s what you find time and time again, consistently throughout scripture. And here you can see when the eunuch is asking Philip, &#8220;What is it that hinders me from being immersed?&#8221; And Philip says, &#8220;If you believe with all your heart, it is permitted.&#8221; In other words, if you are saved, it is permitted. There&#8217;s no waiting time. There&#8217;s no going to a special person, writing a big check, going to a special location, etc., etc. Nothing like that. Philip just says, &#8220;If you are saved, it is permitted.&#8221; And you the eunuch says yes, I believe I am saved. So he&#8217;s saved and he can be he can be uh baptized and he&#8217;s instantly or as it is put forth here in the passage, it seems like he&#8217;s baptized instantly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then Philip and the eunuch go down into the water. He is immersed in the water. Notice there he went down into the water. It wasn&#8217;t that Philip went down there, wet his hands, come back up on land, and sprinkled it over the eunuch. No, it says that Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and were immersed. So, that&#8217;s one thing. Number two, Philip was an apostle. Uh, anyways, good point, the two points there. Number one is that there&#8217;s no waiting time here in this example from scripture and is also immersed. And also think about Philip. Philip wasn&#8217;t a messiah. Philip was not ordained in any particular denomination. He was not a graduate of some seminary with multiple degrees and letters before and after his name. No, he was just a regular guy who yes, was taught by Yeshua and he was apostle of Yeshua, but he wasn&#8217;t anyone special. So, take note of that as well as we go on and look at these various things.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><b>Baptism in the Beginnings<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So now let&#8217;s look at baptism in the early church uh especially uh in the first 3 400 years or so and I don&#8217;t want to say the early church because church was in existence long before that but you kind of get the time frame here. We look at the Didache chapter 7 real quick and the Didache for those of you who don&#8217;t know was written very very early on. It was written near the end of the first century or even up until the middle of the second century is probably like the first non-scriptural work that we have that the earliest work that we have that&#8217;s not scripture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So here in the Didache like I said the Didache is the uh first or the earliest writing we have that&#8217;s non-scriptural but looking at Didache chapter 7 and concerning baptism baptize this way having first said all these things baptize into the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit in living water and what they mean by living water is like flowing water like a creek or a lake or a river etc etc just like Yeshua went and was baptized in in the Jordan by Yochanan the Immerser. And the Didache goes on to say, &#8220;But if you have not living water, baptize into other water, and if you cannot in cold, in warm. But if you have not either, pour out water thrice upon the head into the name of Father and Son and Holy Spirit. But before the baptism, let the baptizer fast and the baptized and whatever others can. But you shall order the baptized to fast one or two days before. End quote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So here we can learn a couple things about how baptism was done way back then. Here according to the Didache you&#8217;re supposed to baptize and take note of this. It does say like the book of Matthew does says baptize into the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit. Take note of that because it does use the same wording as the ending of the book of Matthew. However, in other parts of the Didache, it only uses the name of Jesus or the name of Yeshua. Another thing about baptism, the Didache is teaching is to baptize in living water, not a baptismal pool in the local church, whatnot. Now, I&#8217;m not saying it&#8217;s bad. I&#8217;m just saying the Didache is not advising that or teaching that. It&#8217;s saying to baptize in living water. And then it says that if you have not living water, then baptize in other water, then go to the baptismal pool and local church. And it&#8217;s also recommending that you baptize in cold water. But if you don&#8217;t have cold water or you can&#8217;t do it in cold water, do it in warm water. according to the Didache.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then it goes on to say if you have not either either a pool of cold water or a pool of warm water, then you can pour out the water upon the head three times in the name of the father and of son and of the holy spirit. Again, going back to that what we read in Matthew at the end of Matthew. Like I said again, there&#8217;s other parts of the Didache that only do say baptize or immerse in the name of Jesus or in the name of Yeshua. Also, here&#8217;s some other things that we don&#8217;t do nowadays. And it says that before the baptism, before whoever&#8217;s getting baptized gets baptized, let them fast. And also the one doing the baptizing should fast and whoever else or whatever others can let them fast as well. they were to fast one or two days beforehand. So that&#8217;s all according to the Didache and this goes along with some other early writings that we have as well that contain a number of other things that we&#8217;ll get into here in just a moment. But this is some interesting stuff that you may have not known before especially the whole fasting part. And again the preferred method at least according to the Didache and definitely according to scripture the preferred method is immersion or submersion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now I can understand if there is some sort of health condition that prevents you from being submerged or you know immersed that concession can be made in in instances like that such as pouring of the water or the sprinkling of the water etc. etc. But by and far the recommended and taught method of baptism is submersion or immersion. And that&#8217;s how we see it every single time when we look at baptism in scripture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now another thing that happened in the early days as it were in the first 3400 centuries with baptism is they also performed an exorcism during the baptismal rite as well. looking at Hippolytus of Rome in his work uh apostolic traditions. And here we see he says quote when the elder takes hold of each of them who are to receive baptism he shall tell each of them to renounce saying I renounce you Satan all of your service and all your works. After he has said this he shall anoint each with the oil of exorcism saying let every evil spirit depart from you. Then after these things, the bishop passes each of them on nude to the elder who stands at the water. They shall stand in the water naked. A deacon likewise will go down with them into the water. End quote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, a couple things here. Hopefully, you caught all that. But first of all, the Hippolytus is saying that those who are being baptized should undergo an exorcism first. Maybe you have a demon, maybe you don&#8217;t. But just to be sure, let&#8217;s go ahead and do an exorcism before you get baptized. Okay, I I can go with that. I I don&#8217;t see anything for that in scripture, but okay. And then after that, after the exorcism, they then anoint the person being baptized with oil, which is I&#8217;d say that&#8217;s not commonly done nowadays. It might be done here and there, but very, very sparsely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A big thing here, something we definitely don&#8217;t do nowadays, is when we baptize, we don&#8217;t do it in the nude. I have never seen or known anyone in modern times go through or see a baptism done where the person being baptized and the person doing the baptizing were naked. That is just way out there from what I learned in church about baptisms. And this is something that happened like I said with the back in the early years back in the first three 400 centuries, I&#8217;m sorry, first three or four centuries. You do not get this whole nude thing from scripture. Uh when you look at the baptisms in scripture, it doesn&#8217;t say anything about nude or clothed. So as far as I can tell, scripture does not place an importance on whether you are clothed or not. That would go up to the or be left up to the cultural standards. I would think. Um, yeah, as we read in that passage with the eunuch, I assume the eunuch was probably still clothed when he and Philip went down and Philip baptized. But let it be known and for your notes and for your study that back in the first three, four centuries of the church, the baptisms were done in the nude. So if you are around a church and they are proudly boasting, we are a first century church. We&#8217;re a first century church. And I&#8217;ve heard that before. Uh go up to them and say, &#8220;Okay, show me how you baptize in the nude.&#8221; Because if they don&#8217;t baptize in the nude, they&#8217;re not a first century church. Oh, that&#8217;s just hilarious. But yeah, there&#8217;s uh various things that happened way back then that we don&#8217;t do nowadays as far as the exorcism and the fasting and the nudity and anointing with oil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And also back then it wasn&#8217;t uh an immediate thing almost. It seems like the person would be saved and then the church or the congregation would actually instruct them or catechize them in the ways of scripture and in the faith and stuff like that before they ever got baptized. So that is something a little bit different and something I don&#8217;t really see from scripture either because we also see like I pointed out in that passage of the eunuch and Philip the way I get it from that passage is immediate. There was no time span between the eunuch coming to salvation and him being baptized. It&#8217;s like they were on the road, they got saved, they got out, got baptized. That&#8217;s the way I see it. Um yeah, there&#8217;s no um there&#8217;s no precedent I don&#8217;t see in scripture for making someone wait before being baptized. However, I don&#8217;t see any precedent either for automatically each and every time being immediately baptized either. So, I&#8217;m thinking that could go either way. I think instruction and being catechized is important and it is um fruitful, but I don&#8217;t think it is required. So, yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyways, this um is as far as baptism baptizing in the nude back then, it was um it wasn&#8217;t a carnal thing that was done back then. It was more of a symbolic thing. They It was more of a shedding of the old man as scripture puts it that it says put off the old man and put on the new. It was back then it was more of a shedding of the old man as took their clothes off and they were completely exposed. Everything about them was exposed to everybody. That was the symbolism there. Then when they come up that was a symbolism of being a new man, being raised with Messiah. And during this process, I didn&#8217;t put this in the note or in the slides, but during this process, they would also after they were they were nude and after they come up out of the water, they were given white garments to symbolize their new righteous cleansed life that they were now to lead. So this whole nudity thing, it had a purpose. It wasn&#8217;t just for show or just, you know, because people were perverted. No, it has had a purpose and a symbolism to go along with it. It&#8217;s very odd to us nowadays because we don&#8217;t do it and it would be Yeah, very strange if you were to see that in church service nowadays, but they did it back then, but there was a purpose to it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Going on looking at another writing from Hippolytus&#8217;s apostolic traditions. At the hour in which the cock crows, they shall pray first. They shall first pray over the water. When they come to the water, the water shall be pure and flowing. That is the water of a spring or a flowing body of water, living water, right? Then they shall take off all their clothes. The children shall be baptized first. After this, the men will be baptized. Finally, the women after they have unbound their hair and removed their jewelry, no one shall take any foreign object with themselves down into the water. Then after all these things, the bishop passes each of them on nude to the elder who stands at the water. They shall stand in the water naked. A deacon likewise will go down with them into the water. End quote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is more uh I can say more evidence about how they did baptisms way back then. Again, we&#8217;ve got the whole thing of being nude. And again, it&#8217;s not for perversion. There was a symbolism behind it. But also notice they did all the children first when they were baptizing. They had this big ceremony back then. They would do the children first and they would do the men and then they would do the women finally. And this is kind of seems strange to some of us nowadays because if someone&#8217;s getting baptized, it&#8217;s usually maybe like one or three or five, something like that. It&#8217;s not a big group of them. But nowadays, we kind of baptize whenever we feel that it&#8217;s necessary. If someone got saved at service last week, then we baptized this week. Or if it was last month, we do it this month. It&#8217;s something like that. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s not really big groups like talking about here. Now, back during this time, remember, like I said, there was a period, an instructional period between a person being saved and a person getting baptized. So there was this waiting period back then for them to go through a catechism or an instructional period. Also they would not do this at just about any time of the year. The times they would normally do this would be either during the time of Epiphany or especially at the time of Pesach was come down to us now unfortunately as the name Easter. So it wasn&#8217;t just any old time of the year back then. It was specific times of the year. So that&#8217;s why they&#8217;ve got big groups a lot of times as well. But again, that&#8217;s something that they did way back then. However, I do not find precedent for either having a baptism only a certain time of the year or baptizing in a certain order. Yeah, I&#8217;m all about order and orderly service, etc., etc. So, I can understand that part. Um, however, you not something you see an example of from scripture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Went on and looking at Cyril of Jerusalem. This is going on up into the 4th century now. And Cyril writes, quote, &#8220;As soon then as ye entered, ye put off your tunic.&#8221; And this was an image of putting off the old man with his deeds, having stripped yourself, ye were naked. And this also imitating Christ who was stripped naked on the cross and by his nakedness put off from himself the principalities and powers and openly triumphed over them on the tree. Oh wondrous thing, ye were naked in the sight of all and were not ashamed. For truly ye bore the likeness of the first formed Adam, who was naked in the garden and was not ashamed. Then when you were stripped, you were anointed with the exorcised oil from the very hairs of your head to your feet and were made partakers of the good olive tree, Jesus Christ. For you were cut off from the wild olive tree and grafted into the good one, and were made to share the fatness of the true olive tree.&#8221; End quote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So yeah, you can see the Cyril here uh pretty much expounding on the symbolism of taking your clothes off and being baptized in the nude etc etc. Again, I don&#8217;t think that is required or necessary or that there is a precedent in scripture but I do understand the symbolism and as far as the symbolism goes, I think it&#8217;s absolutely beautiful the what it actually means and everything like that. Am I prescribing it today? No, I would not prescribe you get naked when you go get baptized. But they did it back then and they had their reasons. It was symbolic reasons, not perverse reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So now we&#8217;ve looked at a quick overview of baptism in the Tanakh. We looked at baptism in the Brit Hadasha. We&#8217;ve seen what baptism actually is according to the dictionaries and the lexicons. And we looked in the or looked at the baptisms as how they were done in the first three or four centuries of the church or at least back in the calendar as we got now you understand what I&#8217;m saying here.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><b>FAQs<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So let&#8217;s look let&#8217;s go over and ask some questions that commonly come up with baptism. And once again, once we get the series going, we&#8217;ll do probably an entire episode on the frequently asked questions or things that come up with baptism. But for right now, let this little bit suffice, please.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking at first and foremost, is baptism required for salvation? That&#8217;s the very first question I asked before we even started this particular teaching. Is baptism required for salvation? I would put forth that no, baptism is not required for salvation. I&#8217;ll give you the reasons here why in just a moment. Number one, baptism is something done by a person themselves or by another person. As such, it would seem to indicate that baptism is not what saves or leads to salvation. As only Jesus can save or Yeshua can save, not any other man. If I baptize you, I&#8217;m not saving you. If you baptize me, you&#8217;re not saving me. It&#8217;s Yeshua who saves, not any particular person. And as we saw from the evidence, baptisms were done a lot of times. For various reasons, not just because it was salvation related like we do nowadays. Nowadays, we baptize when someone gets saved to indicate and symbolize them coming into the faith, being rise with Ma or yeah, dying and being risen with Messiah, etc., etc. It&#8217;s a symbolic act of you know, showing to the world and to your brothers and sisters that you have been saved. But in the past, as we saw, baptism occurred for any number of things through u ritual cleanliness, whatnot. This is something that was done very often and a lot of times even in their own homes by themselves. So on that point I would say that no baptism is not required for salvation because it can be considered as a work at that point and it&#8217;s because you know the person doing the baptizing isn&#8217;t the one who saves you. It&#8217;s Yeshua. So on that point I would say that is one piece of evidence for why salvation I&#8217;m sorry baptism is not required for salvation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Number two, Yeshua was baptized and Yeshua was perfect. So he did not need salvation in any form, in any part, etc., etc. And when we say Yeshua was perfect, we mean that Yeshua did not sin at all. What do we mean when he did not sin? It means that he did not break any of the commands at all ever in his entire life. He was perfect. He did not need salvation. He came to provide and make a way for us to come and have salvation. But Yeshua did not need salvation. But Yeshua did get baptized. So, put that in your notes and mull that over for a while, too. But I think that is a another point for why uh baptism is not required as a part of salvation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another point, baptism could be considered a work like we alluded to earlier. And we are not saved by works. Regardless of what you think about those of us in the messianic faith, no, we do not believe that salvation comes by works. We believe it only comes by faith through grace through Yeshua, the Messiah. And as such, baptism, if it is ever considered a work, and if anything can be considered a work, something you do in order to obtain salvation, that would be baptism. But no, baptism is not a work that we do in order to gain salvation. And as such, baptism, that&#8217;s another port, I&#8217;m sorry, another point as to why baptism is not required for salvation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some examples we can see from scripture. Number one, we look at the thief on the cross that you can find in Luke 23:39-43. And the thief on the cross turns to Yeshua and Yeshua says, &#8220;Truly, I tell you today, you will be with me in paradise.&#8221; So, was the thief on the cross saved? I would say yes. And the vast majority of people I know would say yes as well. But was the thief on the cross baptized? Well, if you hold to the fact or hold to the position that baptism is required for salvation, then you would have to say no. If the thief was not saved because he did not get baptized, we don&#8217;t see any evidence in scripture that Yeshua talks to the guards and he says, &#8220;Okay, let&#8217;s go down for a minute. Let&#8217;s pause this execution. Let&#8217;s go baptize this guy and then we&#8217;ll come back and we&#8217;ll finish the whole death thing.&#8221; No, that didn&#8217;t happen. The thief on the cross was not baptized. So that&#8217;s another um another arrow in the quiver to the point of baptism not being required for salvation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We look at another scriptural evidence and we look at the man that&#8217;s being lowered through the opening by his friend and he is healed by Yeshua and we can find that in Matthew chapter 9, Mark chapter 2, Luke chapter 5, etc., etc. And this man who is lame, he is paralyzed. Does scripture ever say that he is baptized? No. Yeshua tells him that your faith has saved you, but Yeshua doesn&#8217;t say anything about baptizing or baptism being part of that salvation or part of that process. So, no, that&#8217;s another piece of evidence for the point that baptism is not required for salvation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, when you talk about the apostles and how they were sent out into the world and especially the most prolific writer we have of the apostles, the apostle Paul, we see them as they go out and they they&#8217;re setting up churches and congregations. Yes. But they are also expounding on the good news, bringing the good news to people and to bring them to Yeshua to be saved. You can almost say they were bringing people to salvation even though they weren&#8217;t saving them themselves. Makes sense. So what does Paul have to say in regards to his mission, in regards to salvation, and in regards to baptism? Let&#8217;s look at what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 1 14-17. I thank Elohim that I immersed not one of you except Crispus and Gaius that no one should say that I am immersed into my own name. Now I did also immerse the household of Stephanas. For the rest I do not know whether I immersed anyone else. For Messiah did not send me to immerse, but to bring the good news, not with wisdom of words that the stake of Messiah should not be nullified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So what is Paul saying here? He say it looks like there&#8217;s a whole uproar about baptizing and who is baptized into what name, etc., etc. And Paul says that I think God or I think Elohim that I immerse not one of you except for this very very small few. And he also goes on after that to say that Messiah did not send me to immerse. Messiah did not send me to baptize. That is the word words of Paul the apostle. So if he was sent out to bring the good news to the people. It goes on to say is Messiah did not send me to immerse or baptize but to bring the good news. And if Paul went out to bring the gospel, to bring the good news of Messiah, to bring people to salvation, then why does he say that he did not get sent to baptize? If baptism is required for salvation, well, the thing is the truth of the matter is that baptism is not required for salvation. And that stance lines up with all the verses we&#8217;ve already looked at. It lines up with this verse and every other verse that we look at. Baptism is not what saves you. It is something that we should do. It&#8217;s important, yes, but baptism is not required for salvation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Look again at the verses that talk about how to get saved. Especially the one major one Romans 10 chapter I&#8217;m sorry let me slow down Romans chapter 10 verse9 it says confess with your mouth that Yeshua is the Messiah and believe in your heart that Yahweh raised him on the third day and you shall be saved. That is what is required for salvation. Not getting dipped in water, nothing like that. Baptism is not required for salvation. Baptism is, however, I would put forth an act of obedience. Even though baptism is not required for salvation, that&#8217;s pretty much the same thing as saying that circumcision is not required for salvation. Is circumcision good? Yes, it is good. It is healthy. It is beneficial. Actually, if you are a parent and you&#8217;ve taken a child to be circumcised, the pediatrician will go over with you the advantages and disadvantages of circumcision. And I did not know all this until my first son, I took him to have him circumcised. And he went over all these things and the medical benefits are astounding even up until today. So, you think there&#8217;s no point to it. It&#8217;s just one of those Old Testament things that was done away with, right? No, no, it is still in effect today and Yahweh knew what he was doing when he implemented the act of circumcision. So yeah, just becau just like circumcision is not uh required for salvation. It is commanded though and by being circumcised that is an act of obedience. Likewise with baptism, it&#8217;s I wouldn&#8217;t even say it&#8217;s commanded, but it is exemplified for us in scripture, and it would still be an act of obedience as far as getting baptized and being baptized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, we look at the book of James, which is probably one of my favorite books of all scripture. But the book of James tells us about works and stuff like that. It says that in a nutshell and I&#8217;m summarizing here that that you know works are important because it shows what faith we have. He says that you show me your faith without works and I will show you my faith by my works. And baptism is one of those things that can show the faith that we have. In fact, that is the very point of why we do it nowadays is to show that we have come into the faith and that we are now a part of the fold. We&#8217;re one of the brothers and sisters of the faith. It&#8217;s not required for salvation, but I do believe it&#8217;s something that we should do and it&#8217;s something that&#8217;s it&#8217;s very important as well. It&#8217;s a um I&#8217;m looking at my notes here, but it it&#8217;s also a part of identifying with Messiah because it says about baptism that we were buried with him and then raised with him through baptism. We also identify with each other because each of us when we come into the faith, we&#8217;re saved. Yes. But that&#8217;s something of the heart and on a spiritual level that we as humans cannot judge and we should not judge. That&#8217;s something that only Yeshua can judge. He has been given the right and the authority to judge our salvation. But one way that we can identify other Christians is by seeing them baptized. And we know that that is going to be someone who is a part of us who&#8217;s a brother or a sister in the faith. So not only is it identifying with Messiah, it&#8217;s also identifying with the brethren as it were. And again, baptism is not something that we have to do. It&#8217;s something that we should do. At least in my opinion, it&#8217;s a representation of salvation, not the actual salvation itself and not something that&#8217;s required for salvation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, is baptism important? I would say in my opinion, yes, it is important. Is it commanded in scripture? Not something I see commanded, but I definitely something that is important. And I do think that scripture does put an emphasis on the importance of baptism. Is baptism advised? Yep, I would definitely advise that in my opinion. And is baptism required for salvation? No, baptism is not required for salvation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moving on, who can perform baptism? Well, look at scripture. Who does it say that is allowed or must be there in order to perform the baptism? No one. And we saw evidence from historical sources talking about how people would a lot of times baptize themselves. Now, now in all fairness, in the context, these uh the context they&#8217;re talking about there is probably with the ritual cleansing in their own homes as part of the ceremonial cleansing that was part of the Tanakh. Because we look back in the Torah and it gives instructions on how we are to ritually cleanse ourselves to be clean before we go into the temple, if we go or come into contact with other people, etc., etc. That would be I would say the kind of self baptism that it was talking about the public baptism. I think it&#8217;s important to be public when you are saved and you&#8217;re doing it to symbolize and show and illustrate your salvation and coming into the fold. I do believe that should be public because why would you do it yourself and hide it? I mean, it makes no sense. You&#8217;re you&#8217;re coming into the club. You&#8217;re you&#8217;re a member now, right? Why would you want to hide that? It should be something you should be excited about and joyful about. Now, I can understand if you&#8217;re in an oppressive society like Iran or China or North Korea or something like that, you wouldn&#8217;t want to do it out on Main Street. No. But you could do it in a group of other believers. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m talking about. So, yeah. Who can perform baptisms? I I think pretty much anyone. It doesn&#8217;t say or demand in scripture that anyone have a certain degree or a certain number of degrees, have attended a certain yeshiva or seminary, etc., etc. No, anyone can do baptisms and can perform baptisms. It doesn&#8217;t have to be a specific person. It doesn&#8217;t have to be a pope or a cardinal or a priest or a preacher or a reverend or etc, etc. It can be anyone. Scripture does not demand a specific person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, in in light of that, I do say think that baptism should be treated as something sacred and holy. Even though it&#8217;s not commanded, it&#8217;s not required for salvation. I do think it&#8217;s something that should be given reverence. And in that context and going on that avenue, it would be advantageous to have someone there who has done their research and is knowledgeable about performing baptisms and what it means and the scriptures that go along with it, etc., etc., but it&#8217;s not required. I do see the advantages of that, but again, it&#8217;s not required to have someone like that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And how should baptism be performed? Well, if you&#8217;ve looked and paid attention as we went through the scriptures, the method of baptism is by submersion or immersion, whatever how you want to put it, that is the scriptural example given to us. And that&#8217;s the way I think that 99 times out of 100 it should be done. Again, as we looked at the Didache and how the first three four centuries people there did it. If there is something that is preventing you from being submerged or immersed like a health condition or an infirmity or something like that, I can understand the the pouring over at that point like the Didache subscribed. But even back then, they recommended immersion first and that&#8217;s what we should definitely strive for. only in extenuating circumstances do I think that a pouring uh baptizing would be appropriate or reverent because what we see in scripture is immersion or submersion not definitely not sprinkling and definitely not pouring although like I said I&#8217;m beating a dead horse I understand but if there is an extenuating circumstance like an open wound or you know a medical condition or infirmity then Yeah, go for the pouring. But like I said, 99 times out of 100, you should do the submersion or immersion like scripture illustrates.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><b>Summary<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So now let&#8217;s wrap this up and go on into summary. Baptize literally means to immerse, dip, or wash. We saw that with the lexicons, the dictionaries, etc., etc. That&#8217;s what baptize literally means in the original languages. Washing or baptism was commanded in the Torah for various situations and was around long before John the Immerser or John the Baptist, John the Baptizer, whichever phrase you want to use. So yeah, baptism has been around for a long, long time. Mikvas were pools or baths intentionally built for the purpose of bathing or baptizing. And as we saw from the historical information, these mikvah were all over the place. Not just in Jerusalem at the temple, not just in Qumran, they were in people&#8217;s basement, in their homes, all over in the rural areas, etc., etc. They were everywhere. These mikvah were baptism was in the Tanakh in the early times, been around for a long time, but it continued into the Brit Hadasha or the aka New Testament. Obviously, because we see Yeshua doing it. We see uh John the Baptist doing it. We see Paul and Philip and etc etc. The pattern for baptism in the Brit Hadasha is in the name of Yeshua. We see in Matthew the ending of Matthew is in the name of the father son and set apart spirit. But we do not get the same thing in the rest the other three canonical gospels in the rest of the in every single example of baptizing that we see. It&#8217;s always in the name of Yeshua. However, the early first two, three, four centuries understood it in different context. I did not provide this also, but I think it&#8217;s he actually writes that baptizing in the name of Jesus or in the name of Yeshua. But in other works, he also mentions baptizing in the name of the father, son, and the holy spirit. It&#8217;s like we saw in the Didache, we saw the baptizing in the name of the father, son, and holy spirit. But then in other parts of the Didache, it says baptizing in the name of Yeshua. So it all depends on which historical document you&#8217;re looking at. It goes both ways. Both the long form and the short form.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The church in the early years baptized in the nude after a long instructional period of catechizing and fasting before being baptized as well as being anointed with oil and being exorcised etc etc things we don&#8217;t do nowadays and anyone can baptize anyone else. There is no scriptural command or precedent for having someone ordained or certified or seminary-ized or whatever. There&#8217;s no requirement like that from scripture. So, anyone can baptize anyone else. Now, like I said, I do see the advantages of having someone do it who is experienced and knowledgeable and knows what they&#8217;re doing, but it is not required.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And finally, baptism is not required for salvation. And that is just the God honest truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, thank you for watching this teaching on baptism. If you, like I said before, if you want more notes than what we provided here, and we&#8217;ve got a whole bunch more on our website that we took and provided for you, it&#8217;s on our website at www.godhonesttruth.com. Click on the article for this particular episode. There you&#8217;ll find the ondemand notes, I&#8217;m sorry, the on demand video, the draw slides that you see here on your screen. You also find the notes that we took for you and you&#8217;ll also find the transcript that is helpful for you that is provided for you on our website at godhonesttruth.com or conveniently linked for you down in the description below. Before you leave, make sure to go down in the comments, let me know if your opinion has changed since the beginning of this video. I asked uh originally, do you think or baptism is required for salvation? I I put forth the way I see it from scripture. Maybe you differ. And if you do, that&#8217;s fine. We&#8217;re still brothers and sisters in Messiah. Again, we can disagree about non-salvific things. And if you believe it&#8217;s a require for salvation, that&#8217;s fine. We can still break bread together. But let us know down in the comments below. Let us know if you&#8217;re opinion actually changed after examining this evidence for yourself as well. And after you get done leaving that comment, go up above that, hit that subscribe button and ring the bell so that you&#8217;re notified every time we go live or upload a new on demand video. Hit that like button if you liked it or hit that down vote button if you didn&#8217;t like it, but let us know why so that we can improve our future videos. And also make sure to hit that share button and share this video around with someone that you may know because odds are if you&#8217;re watching this right now, someone in your inner circle is also going to enjoy the same kind of content. 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If you\u2019ve ever felt uncertain, confused, or misinformed about baptism, this teaching will ground you in truth and cut through tradition with clarity. We invite you to cast aside the confusion of man-made traditions and embrace the profound clarity of Scripture.<\/p>\n<p>Many people approach Baptism with confusion, wondering if it&#8217;s merely a tradition, a symbolic act, or something far more meaningful that connects you directly to the death, burial, and resurrection of Yeshua. In this teaching we walk you through what Scripture actually says about baptism. <\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re serious about understanding Christianity as the Bible presents it\u2014and not as tradition has reshaped it\u2014this teaching is for you. Come with us as we learn the God Honest Truth about baptism.<br \/>\n<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/godhonesttruth.com\/wp\/2026\/02\/06\/what-is-baptism-according-to-the-bible-2026\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"Baptism is not a church ritual\u2014it is a decisive, biblical act of obedience that marks the beginning of a transformed life. If you\u2019ve ever felt uncertain, confused, or misinformed about baptism, this teaching will ground you in truth and cut through tradition with clarity. We invite you to cast aside the confusion of man-made traditions and embrace the profound clarity of Scripture.\n\nMany people approach Baptism with confusion, wondering if it's merely a tradition, a symbolic act, or something far more meaningful that connects you directly to the death, burial, and resurrection of Yeshua. In this teaching we walk you through what Scripture actually says about baptism. \n\nIf you\u2019re serious about understanding Christianity as the Bible presents it\u2014and not as tradition has reshaped it\u2014this teaching is for you. 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