Here's a question.
Read these.
Matt 20:22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask.
Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.
Matt 20:23 And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.
Luke 12:50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with;
and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! (The following day Christ was crucified)
Apparently baptism is something DIFFICULT, and something Christ had not even completed until his crucifixion. Was Christ really saying "Are ye able to be dipped in water and have the words 'In Jesus Name' spoken over you?" or "Are ye able to walk down an aisle and have an ecstatic emotional experience?"
We know Christ said there is one Lord, one Faith and ONE BAPTISM (not two, water and an emotional experience)
HERE'S A SUGGESTION. Get a McClinktock & Strong's encyclopedia and look up
'Blood Baptism'.
Luke 9:23
And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
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