A Question of Semantics

[Gerald Wilgus]

There is a lot of misunderstandings and confusion due to problems of translations of the Bible. Over the years many have translated things in a specific way to fit their agenda. Like how homosexuality wasn't added until 1946.

And in antebellum America, the bible was used to justify degenerate slave holders treating other humans as property.

 

[ucrenegade]

The more I know about Judaism the more I think it's saying baptism the mikveh way, go to a mikveh when you've got Yeshua in you ,so that you've fulfilled the ritual cleansing of your body, Yeshua said he was the fulfillment of what was spoken by the prophets in torah.

Fulfill in Hebrew does not mean complete. In Hebrew it means to proclaim more fully in other words nothing was done away with when he died. We are to still become Israel certain things we can not do because we are not in the land or have a temple but many things we can still do.

 

[Streetwise]

Yeah it seems like from the quotes you put in your post people are commanded to be baptized. This also looks like an endorsement of proselytizing.

I think that (proselytising )purely depends on an individual sect of Yeshua not every single one and many non Jews probably had no! idea what a mikveh was!.