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Originally Posted by keith4him
The first tidbit is that the person being baptized called on the name of the Lord, not the one doing the baptizing Acts 22:16. |
Correct. In addition, "in the name of" meant "in the authority of the one who the name represents".
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I think that something is missing because the person who is being baptized sometimes misses this important element of calling on the Name of Jesus to wash them from their sins
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Baptism waters do not wash away sin. The Blood of Jesus does. The Blood is not 'applied' in baptism.
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The second part is that this I believe fulfills Romans 10:9
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I guess that could be argued as public baptism was a pretty heavy way of making the statement that you identified with Christ (or any other movement) to the 1st Century Jew... and even to the Gentile at the time.
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The third tidbit, is that of course the Jews understood baptism to be part of the washing rituals from their history of purification washings, but there is a new twist that the Romans understood about loyalty and oaths, that baptism also gave a picture of a soldier pledging ownership and loyalty to his new master (Pawson, The Normal Christian Birth)
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Never heard that about the Roman soldier, etc, but before a Jewish couple
consumated their wedding (as they were already married upon the bride's acceptance of the groom's proposal), the bride went through a ceremonial washing.
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Another tidbit about baptism that I never saw until recently, was in Luke's account of Jesus's baptism, the Holy Spirit did not descend upon him for the sake of ministry/to fulfill the type of the baptism of the Spirit, until he prayed, here is what Luke records....
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Jesus was baptized for His taking on the role of High Priest, and anointed as High priest and King by the Holy Ghost.