Category: BAPTISM/DOOP

WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH?

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For the first 280 years of Christian history, Christianity was banned by the Roman Empire, and Christians were terribly persecuted. This changed after the “conversion” of the Roman Emperor Constantine.

Constantine provided religious toleration with the Edict of Milan in AD313, effectively lifting the ban on Christianity. Later, in AD 325, Constantine called the council of Nicea in an attempt to unify Christianity.

Constantine envisioned Christianity as a religion that could unite the Roman Empire, which at that time was beginning to fragment and divide.

While this may have seemed to be a positive development for the Christian church, the results were anything but positive.

Just as Constantine refused to fully embrace the Christian faith, but continued many of his pagan beliefs and practices, so the Christian church that Constantine and his successors promoted progressively became a mixture of true Christianity and Roman paganism.

Examples of some of the customs that we still have today that are actually Roman paganism, is Christmast en Infant Baptism.

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IN THE NAME OF

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In Matt. 28:18 – 20 we find YaHUsha’s last and Great Commission which also includes baptism.

Someone’s last words are always something that will be embraced by a person’s loved ones, but now there is controversy about YaHUsha’s words: “baptize them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”, because on other places in Scripture where “baptism” is involved it is not stated like that.  

It then seems as if YaHUsha’s words in Matt. 28:19 contradicts what is written in other verses, and it is then said that Matt. 28:19 was added.

Is something added or do we perhaps lack insight into our Saviour’s identity?

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IN DIE NAAM VAN

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In Matt. 28:18 – 20 vind ons JaHUsha se laaste en Groot Opdrag wat ook die doop insluit.

Daar is kontroversie oor JaHUsha se woorde: “doop hulle in die Naam van die Vader en die Seun en die Afgesonderde Gees”, omdat dit op ander plekke in die Woord waar daar “doop” betrokke is nie so gestel word nie.

Dit lyk dan asof JaHUsha se woorde in Matt. 28:19 weerspreek wat in ander verse staan, en so word daar dan beweer dat Matt. 28:19 bygevoeg is.  

Is iets bygevoeg of ontbreek ons insig in ons Verlosser se identiteit?

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BAPTISM OF THE BELIEVER

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In the Torah, the New Testament baptism has the “Baptism into Moses” as its foundation, namely when the Israelites crossed the Red Sea.  It is symbolic of our deliverance from the ”slavery of Egypt” (our sins) by YaHUsha our Passover Lamb, namely through His death and resurrection. 

The Israelites were protected and kept while crossing the Sea, but the Egyptians who did not have the blood of Passover lambs, drowned in that same water. 

This refers back to Noah’s flood that cleansed the earth of sinners and sin, but those who were inside the Ark were preserved amidst the situation.

However, we cannot always connect it with water everywhere we read about “baptism” in the Word, because more often it refers to the “spiritual baptism” into “YaHUsha’s death”.  

But the baptism with water has a very important place, especially with regard to symbolising the inauguration into the Priesthood of the Melchizedek Order.

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Also see: INFANT BAPTISM

DIE DOOP VAN DIE GELOWIGE

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In die Torah het die Nuwe Testamentiese doop die “Doop in Moses” as fondasie, naamlik toe die Israeliete deur die Rooi See getrek het. 

Dit is ‘n simboliese bevestiging van die Vereenselwiging met ons Paaslam, JaHUsha, se sterwe en opstanding as ons Verlosser uit ons “Egiptiese slawerny”.  Die Israeliete het behoue deur daardie water gekom, terwyl die Egiptenare wat nie die bloed van Paaslammers gehad het nie, verdrink het in dieselfde water.  Dit verwys weer terug na Noag se vloed wat die aarde skoongemaak het van sondaars en sonde, maar die wat binne-in die Ark was, was binne-in die situasie bewaar.

Ons kan egter ook nie orals waar ons van “doop” in die Woord lees dit altyd met water verbind nie, want meer dikwels verwys dit na die “geestelike doop in JaHUsha se dood”. 

Die doop met water het egter ook ‘n baie belangrike plek, veral m.b.t. die inwyding tot die Melgisèdekorde se Priesterkap.

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Sien ook: DIE KINDERDOOP