Baptism
- A religious sacrament marked by the symbolic application of water to the head or immersion of the body into water and resulting in admission of the recipient into the community of Christians.
- A ceremony, trial, or experience by which one is initiated, purified, or given a name.
Originates from the Greek work "baptizo" and which originated from "bapto" which means to dip. Evidently, it was used in the second part of a ancient Greek process for pickling vegetables, the first being to boil the vegetables and the second to dip the vegetables in vinegar to change the composure of the vegetable and to kill the bacteria within. Similarly as Christians, when we go through water baptism, we go in with our sins and leave a changed person, leaving our sins behind.
So, have you been pickled yet?
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1 comment:
heh we're similar to pickled vegetables. interesting.
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