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"Discuss the rite of Baptism. How might its meaning be explicated in a secular society?"
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522549 May 2004 Dr. M. Felderhof "Discuss the rite of Baptism. How might its meaning be explicated in a secular society?" The primary purpose of Christian baptism is to sign an everlasting union with Jesus Christ. Alternatively, through Christian baptism the participants sign the death and resurrection of Jesus whom they choose to pledge their allegiance and follow. Baptism is the action Jesus and the disciples chose which would best convey the atonement actions of Jesus on our behalf, that is, his death and resurrection. It is important that we should not narrow the symbolism of baptism. Baptism does not symbolise any section or part of salvation, but the whole of salvation. Baptism and the Lord's Supper, for instance, do not divide the field between them, each symbolizing one element in the broad process of salvation or one exercise in the complex enjoyment of salvation. They are two ways of symbolizing salvation as a...
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