Jedi,
Which translation do you prefer the best of the ones you have read through thus far?
Of course translators can come to wrong ideas about various subjects, and that can taint their translations. And readers can also come to wrong ideas about various subjects, and that can taint how they understand what they read. Both have to be careful not to impose there ideas upon Holy Scripture, but rather let its teaching impose itself upon them.
This is why we need The Holy Spirit, to lead us into all truth, as we are prone to come up with our own ideas.
The English terms Baptized, Baptize, and Baptism, comes from the Greek word Baptismo, which carries the meaning of dipping something, or someone completely under water i.e. to immerse something, or something.
Both myself, and Andrew Gabriel Roth, were fully immersed by a Qasha {Priest} of The Church of the East, in the Trinitarian form and I continue to be a member of The Church of the East. Immersion is not something that came to be in the 17th century with the Baptist movement. Both the Eastern Orthodox groups and The Church of the East, have always immersed those who were coming into The Church of The Messiah.
Pouring or sprinkling water over the head, can be seen as an alternative in certain situations as far back as the later part of the 1st century, where mention is made of various forms in the Didache (about 80 A.D.}, but, those forms are not normative, or to be preferred over the regular way. I think the term "Immerse" or "Immersed" are fine renderings of the word used in the Aramaic NT. Washing is also used, and a bath is in view, rather than a shower. People took bath's not showers to remove the dirt in the 1st century.
Shlama
Which translation do you prefer the best of the ones you have read through thus far?
Of course translators can come to wrong ideas about various subjects, and that can taint their translations. And readers can also come to wrong ideas about various subjects, and that can taint how they understand what they read. Both have to be careful not to impose there ideas upon Holy Scripture, but rather let its teaching impose itself upon them.
This is why we need The Holy Spirit, to lead us into all truth, as we are prone to come up with our own ideas.
The English terms Baptized, Baptize, and Baptism, comes from the Greek word Baptismo, which carries the meaning of dipping something, or someone completely under water i.e. to immerse something, or something.
Both myself, and Andrew Gabriel Roth, were fully immersed by a Qasha {Priest} of The Church of the East, in the Trinitarian form and I continue to be a member of The Church of the East. Immersion is not something that came to be in the 17th century with the Baptist movement. Both the Eastern Orthodox groups and The Church of the East, have always immersed those who were coming into The Church of The Messiah.
Pouring or sprinkling water over the head, can be seen as an alternative in certain situations as far back as the later part of the 1st century, where mention is made of various forms in the Didache (about 80 A.D.}, but, those forms are not normative, or to be preferred over the regular way. I think the term "Immerse" or "Immersed" are fine renderings of the word used in the Aramaic NT. Washing is also used, and a bath is in view, rather than a shower. People took bath's not showers to remove the dirt in the 1st century.
Shlama