7 Baptisms in Christ

This book is a completely new view of our Christian Salvation from a Bible based perspective. This first passage is taken from the introduction to the book. The bible is like a flower when it blooms, the more you look into it and let the petals unfold, the greater is the beauty that shines before your heart. The purpose of this book is to just look into a few petals and thus let Jesus unfold His flowers for each of us as He sees fit. Then maybe, we shall get to touch His pollen that feeds the Love song of our lives. The book is lain out in nine chapters preceded by a short introduction and a Love song to Jesus. Yielding; that looks a little at our church life and offers some reasoning and application to allowing Jesus to give us what He feels we are open to receive. Baptism; looks at the purpose and meaning of Baptism. Then we have the seven Baptisms. Know Whom God Is; we meet the foundational folk of the Ephesian church who were baptized by John the Baptist and look at what they were believed, having not yet heard of Jesus. Christ Jesus; we discern the fundament of most Christians salvational belief. The Name of Jesus; we now look at the authority of Jesus and the parameters this contains for each of us. The Holy Spirit; we cover a brief over-view of the history of the Holy Spirit’s activities from Adam to the present, to thus see where and why He is in our churches today, plus what this Baptism is, and thus how we grow in it. Fire; we discover the how and why of separating the wheat from the chaff. In God; we now take our relationship in God to a personal level. Love; now we come to the whole motivation of Christ and the why of everything. This passage is taken from about a third of the way through the book. The term the “knowledge of good and evil”, found in the first few chapters of the Bible, is translated from three Hebrew words; the first meaning knowledge of, an awareness and experience of; the second is good, light and love; and the third is evil, dark and empty. The word translated ‘knowledge of is a noun, a naming/title word. This is the subject matter the phrase is talking about; the words translated good and evil are simply two adjectives to describe the scope of the awareness of the ‘knowledge of’. Yes we get caught up in the ‘good and evil’, that’s Satan’s way of diverting us from the idea of the ‘knowledge of’. The ‘knowledge of’ brings us to an awareness that we are aware, to know that we know. Yes we already know it, but until Satan put the concept before Eve and thus Adam, then the whole idea of concept had never actually entered the planet’s atmosphere of consideration; so the ‘knowledge of’ became the knowledge of the knowledge of, (sorry, I had to put that in, my dry sense of humor). With the action of presenting Eve and then Adam, in their simple and absolutely untainted unquestioning innocence with the consideration of considering consideration, then sin entered the world as they received the knowledge of the capacity to consider or question. Just reading back through this short passage there are ideas and concepts that have already been discussed earlier in this book, such as Adam and Eves innocence, and so forth. The book unfolds layer upon layer, precept upon precept, and in doing so presents many ideas and thus answers many questions of Christ and Christendom; and subsequently offers a great deepening and strengthening of the readers Faith. For a Teacher or Preacher or any discerning Christian who seeks to understand and thus impart their Faith, there are many easily discussed ideas within this little book.