theWord Baptism Library V2
theWord Baptism Library
By David Cox
04/03/2015
This library is dedicated to religious works dealing with and about “Baptism”. I would point out that the Bible has various different kinds of baptism that it mentions, and one of these is water baptism, which is the focus of this library. Those works about the Spiritual Baptism which is the work of the Holy Spirit saving a person and filling him with holiness and service for God would be better found in the Holy Spirit Library.
This biblical concept comes from the OT washings, and specifically it comes from the idea of the OT priest who had to wash before entering service, and this was at the beginning of his priestly ministry, and then every time he actually offered sacrifice. The principle idea of water_baptism is that of the priestly washing before ministry at the first time he enters the priesthood. This is the same idea in the water_baptism of Jesus Christ which Jesus needed to separated from daily life for a life and ministry of service before God. Christ’s water_baptism has nothing to do with identification with God’s atonement for sin like our water_baptism, but with identification of service in God’s ministry. While our water_baptism has the dual ideas of separation from sin in identifying with Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection, it also has the idea of beginning our ministry for God as priesthood believers.