Baptism

God uses outward signs and marks Outward signs teach spiritual truths. They remind us of God’s grace as well as man’s duty and responsibility. For this reason, the Lord has…

Believers in the early church believed that the reception of the Holy Spirit is dependent upon the act of water baptism. And ordinarily, as in the case of the Samaritans…

The Biblical requirement for salvation The Bible says, “He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned” (Mark 16:16). The Bible…

The word baptize (Gr. Baptizō) means “to dip” or “to immerse.” The word Baptizō was used of immersing cloth in dye and of submerging a vessel in order to fill…

A big clue when Jesus was baptized can be found in Luke. The apostle Luke writes, “Now Jesus Himself began His ministry at about thirty years of age” (Luke 3:23).…

Jesus commanded, in Matthew 28:19, that the believers should be baptized in “the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” And the book of…

Christening children is the act of giving a baby a Christian name at baptism as a sign of admission to a Christian Church. But according to the Bible, children should…

People don’t suffer in this life more because they were not christened when they were young. This is a misconception. Some have even wrongly taught that the un-baptized infant is…

According to Bible chronology, Jesus got baptized in the autumn of A.D. 27 (Matthew 3:13–17; Mark 1:9–11; Luke 3:21–22) John the Baptist had possibly been preaching for about six months…

The Bible tell us that “John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sin” (Mark 1:4). John’s baptism was characterized by repentance.…