The Trinity Doctrine: Help me out, Christians

[Haipule]

Baptism is a transliteration of the Greek baptismos. It is not translated. The word was used to effect a change. It was NOT a ecclesiastical word.

Nicander, a physician who lived years before the NT was written said first you baptO(dip) the vegetable in boiling water and then baptismos(submerge) the vegetable in a vinegar solution to preserve vegetables as a pickle.

Back in the day they would baptO their spears in animal blood to identify the spear with blood. They would baptismos cloth in die, such as purple, to identify the cloth with royalty. 

So baptismos was used to effect a change to whatever was submerged.

In the "Great Commission" the students of Jesus were told to make students and to submerge them in the teaching of the Father, Son and pure breath of God's Word.

The NT had not yet been written so Jesus' students used water to teach their students of the change. Water was just a teaching tool. But once Romans 6 was written seemed pointless and water baptism is only mentioned twice in the epistles and only negatively.

I gots my own way of pickling myself!