John the Baptist, baptized for the remission of sins..............?

Question

baptism is also used to identify the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus was still alive when John was Baptizing people. So the point of baptizing was only for the remission of sins during John's tenure? Jesus himself was Baptized by John to show obedience "NOT" because Jesus himself was sinful. (Even though Jesus was fully human and fully God.) I guess what I'm asking is that John must have known through divine revelation that Jesus' death was iminent and that could be the reason why he Baptized people not only for the remission of sins, but also as a symbol of the future death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ?

Answer 1

He did it because God and Christ told him to. He was raised by a woman who knew God and knew that Christ was the savior. Christ and John were cousins. Don't you think they had lengthy discussions on what John would have to do later in his life? I'm sure he did it from an understanding that we may not have of what Father in Heaven needed us all to do. Christ set the example for us all, showing us what we need to do to return to Him and God. Baptism is just a small part of that.

Answer 2

I think you're reading too much into it. Baptism was a Jewish religious practice already, like the ritual foot washing, for example. It was a symbol of repentence. I'm not sure what you mean, baptism is also used to identify the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus. Are you referring to being washed by Jesus' blood? At any rate, baptism in Christianity is pretty much the same as in those days - to show repentence and obedience to God.

Answer 3

Where did the Baptist Church come from? I have yet found The Authority. From my research it was made up by man 1500 years after Christ's Church. I would by very leary of any doctrine that comes along centuries afterwards and think they have the anwers to salavation after Christ had already established what we are do.

Answer 4

Baptism comes from the Jewish practice of Mikvah, it is not an original Christian tradition. To learn more about mikvah, see this website. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikvah

Answer 5

John 3:

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Jesus answered and said to him, "Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born 3 from above."
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Nicodemus said to him, "How can a person once grown old be born again? Surely he cannot reenter his mother's womb and be born again, can he?"
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Jesus answered, "Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit.


Acts 2:

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Peter (said) to them, "Repent and be baptized, 7 every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit.
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For the promise is made to you and to your children and to all those far off, whomever the Lord our God will call."

Acts 22:

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Now, why delay? Get up and have yourself baptized and your sins washed away, calling upon his name.'

Romans 6:

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1 What then shall we say? Shall we persist in sin that grace may abound? Of course not!
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How can we who died to sin yet live in it?
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Or are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
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We were indeed buried with him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live in newness of life.

1 Corinthians 6:

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2 3 Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes nor sodomites
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nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.
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That is what some of you used to be; but now you have had yourselves washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

1 Corinthians 12:

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For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons, and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.

Galatians 3:

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For through faith you are all children of God 17 in Christ Jesus.
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18 19 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

Ephesians 5:

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Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her
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to sanctify her, cleansing her by the bath of water with the word,

Colossians 2:

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In him 5 you were also circumcised with a circumcision not administered by hand, by stripping off the carnal body, with the circumcision of Christ.
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You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.

Titus 3:

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not because of any righteous deeds we had done but because of his mercy, he saved us through the bath of rebirth and renewal by the holy Spirit,

1 Peter 3:

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For Christ also suffered 5 for sins once, the righteous for the sake of the unrighteous, that he might lead you to God. Put to death in the flesh, he was brought to life in the spirit.
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In it he also went to preach to the spirits in prison, 6
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who had once been disobedient while God patiently waited in the days of Noah during the building of the ark, in which a few persons, eight in all, were saved through water.
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This prefigured baptism, which saves you now.