BreadOfLife
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YOU made the following false claim:Such ignorance.
Baptize:
βαπτίζει — 2x
βαπτίζειν — 2x
βαπτίζεις — 1x
βαπτίζομαι — 4x
βαπτιζόμενοι — 1x
βαπτίζονται — 1x
βαπτίζοντες — 1x
βαπτίζω — 3x
βαπτίζων — 7x
βάπτισαι — 1x
βαπτίσει — 3x
βαπτισθεὶς — 3x
βαπτισθέντες — 2x
βαπτισθέντος — 1x
βαπτισθῆναι — 11x
βαπτισθήσεσθε — 4x
βαπτισθήτω — 1x
βαπτίσωνται — 1x
βεβαπτισμένοι — 1x
ἐβάπτιζεν — 2x
ἐβαπτίζοντο — 5x
ἐβάπτισα — 5x
ἐβαπτίσαντο — 1x
ἐβάπτισεν — 4x
ἐβαπτίσθη — 5x
ἐβαπτίσθημεν — 3x
ἐβαπτίσθησαν — 2x
ἐβαπτίσθητε — 3x
Dictionary Aids
Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry
TDNT Reference: 1:529,92
KJV Translation Count — Total: 80x
The KJV translates Strong's G907 in the following manner: baptize (76), wash (2x), baptist (1x), baptized (with G2258) (1x).
Outline of Biblical Usage [?]
- to dip repeatedly, to immerse, to submerge (of vessels sunk)
- to cleanse by dipping or submerging, to wash, to make clean with water, to wash one's self, bathe
- to overwhelm
"Note on Baptism in Ac. Baptism in water (such as John's) is distinguished from baptism with the Holy Spirit (i. 5, etc.). Those who receive the latter, however, may also be baptized in water (cf. xi. 16 with x. 47); and there is one example of people who had previously received John's baptism receiving Christian baptism as a preliminary to receiving the Spirit (xix. 3 ff.). John's was a baptism
"also the baptism a believer must go through is dunking in water."
NOWHERE does the Bible make this claim. All YOU gave me was a general definition.
In fact, in Ezekiel's prophecy about Baptism, he states:
Ezek. 36:25-28
I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleanness from all your idols I will cleanse you. A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you, and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances. Then you shall live in the land that I gave to your ancestors; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
In the Early Church document, the Didache (Doctrines of the Twelve Apostles), written while they were STILL alive, we read the following:
