Practices. One of the main reasons for the different denominations is their

core, or fundamental, difference of belief concerning baptism. I hope to show

many of the individual beliefs that are held by the different denominations, and

to go back to the Bible and show what it has to say concerning baptism. The

point is not to distinguish who is right and who is wrong, but to make people

think about what they have been taught in their denomination, and to compare it

to what the Bible has to say on the matter. If we go back to the original Greek

we find several words used for baptism, baptizing, and baptized. All of these

words have their root in the Greek word ?????, Bapto; meaning to overwhelm,

i.e. cover wholly with a fluid. The most common Greek word used to describe

the act of baptism is ????_?_??. This is the

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