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The True Meaning of Baptism

Baptism is an important event in the believer’s walk with Jesus Christ that symbolizes new life with the symbolic use of water. The Greek root-word baptizein means to plunge, immerse, sink; hence to wash; to be immersed. The Bible talks about water immersion baptism in which a believer makes a public confession of their faith. Jesus’s baptism led the way for us as an example of this important event. John the Baptist, who baptized Jesus, taught that the immersion into water were symbolic of a tur