Baptism and the Great Deception

One of the greatest deceptions in Christianity today is Baptism. Baptism is NOT an English word, Baptism is a transliteration from the Greek, which is βάπτισμα or Greek terms (bapto, baptisma, baptizo, baptismos, baptistes), the word Baptism means immersion, refer to dipping, immersion, plunging, submerging, and washing. Moreover, when used metaphorically, it suggests the idea of an overwhelming experience.

Notwithstanding indisputable native meaning of “baptism”, it is one of the most remarkably tragic stories in Biblical translation history where the word group is purposely left ambiguous.
1525, William Tyndale produced an English translation of the New Testament (from the Greek). Tyndale translates baptisma as “immersion”.

In 1611, King James I “forbade”, as head of the Church of England (the Anglican Church), “his translators… from using ‘immersion’”. Instead, he “ordered them to use the noncommittal cover-up word ‘baptism’”.

The reasoning, the Church of England (the Anglican Church) practiced sprinkling and not immersion; thus, translators of King James (version of the Bible) were actually to translate baptisma, the erroneous and completely unbiblical practice of sprinkling would be apparent and viewed as heresy.

Thus, the great deception of King James I is still prevalent in Christianity today, 407 years later and the deception is still accepted in the body of messiah / church.

I pray and hope that 2018 will bring revelation to the body of messiah and understanding that WORDS are very important and without proper meaning, context and structure we can create heresy unintentionally.