Baptism is death, burial, and resurrection

 Baptism is death, burial, and resurrection 

ROMANS 6:3 "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?"

A corpse is laid on its back and covered with earth in the grave.

This is acted out by lowering the person backwards into the water until they are covered in water.

ROMANS 6:4 "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life."

Then the person who acts as if he or she is dead, because eyes are closed and there is no breathing, is then raised up out of the water. This represents the resurrection from the dead.

ROMANS 6:5 "For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:"

A person is only buried once, not three times. Some Trinitarians baptize three times for Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. That does not represent an actual burial.

People are not buried by having soil sprinkled over their heads.

Sprinkling water onto a person's head does not baptize them.

"The church at one time practiced immersion. This was up to the thirteenth century. The Council of Ravenna, in 1311, changed the form from immersion to pouring."

(Roman Catholics. Our Faith and the Facts, p. 399).

Our English word "baptism" is from the Greek word "baptisma" and means "immersion, submersion, and emergence"

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon, p. 94 Let us look at an example of water baptism.

ACTS 8:38 "And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.".

:39 "And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing."

They would not both go down into the water if Philip was just going to sprinkle some water over his head.

Baptism represents the death, burial, and resurrection of the Man Jesus.

God the Father is a Spirit. He cannot be killed and buried.

If the Father is a separate Person, then He never died and never got buried. Thus, He has got nothing to do with our water baptism.

The same applies to the Holy Spirit. If He is a separate Person, then He never died nor was buried. Thus, the Holy Spirit has nothing to do with our water baptism.

Even worse. The Holy Spirit never has a name given to Him in the Bible. Why?

The Holy Spirit is the Father of Jesus.

MATTHEW 1:20 "But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost."

The man who places the seed of life in a woman’s womb is the father of that child.

Thus, the Holy Ghost is the Father of Jesus.

It was the Holy Ghost Who spoke when He descended and rested on Jesus after His water baptism. Saying, Thou art my beloved Son.

Just like Jesus, sitting on the Mercy Seat in Heaven, projected His Holy Spirit to look like a bright Light as He spoke to Saul on the road to Damascus.

The Holy Spirit supernaturally created the Seed of Eternal Life in Mary’s womb.

The Holy Spirit then indwelt that Seed and the Fetus that formed so that God could become a Man.

LUKE 2:11 "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."

The Baby Jesus was born as Lord. Christ means the Anointed One.

Jesus was born as the Anointed One. The anointing of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

At His water baptism, Jesus received an outer anointing that was visible to the prophet John.

This happened in order to indicate that His ministry was starting. Jesus, as the Son, was Emmanuel, God with us.

Similarly, the Holy Spirit was physically manifest as an outer visible anointing of tongues of fire on the Day of Pentecost.