>>12733509You can't remember "Jesus"?
Baptism is based on Tvilah, a Jewish purification ritual of immersing in water, which is required for conversion to Judaism and needs to be repeated for other jewish "ritual washings", while Christian baptism is to be performed only once. The baptism of Jesus is the only one that needed to be done, for when John baptized him, the holy spirit presented itself (this is where the holy spirit being represented by a dove comes from), and it was performed to further fulfill the messiah prophecy. Even the nigger Paul distinguished the baptism of Jesus by John as the "baptism of repentance" and all other baptisms in the name of Jesus. It is used as ecuminism between churches, and church is just when two believers of God are together.
Baptism is derived from Greek meaning "immersion," "going under" (as a material in a liquid dye) or "perishing" (as in a ship sinking or a person drowning), with the same double meanings as in English "to sink into" or "to be overwhelmed by," with bathing or washing only occasionally used and usually in sacral contexts.
