Baptism

of a traumatic experience or death process involved. That is what makes the
covenant children different from those coming from outside. When you move
from one church to another if there is a substantial difference in the basic
tenants, a conversion process will again be necessary. That is why most
extreme sects within the Chrsitian Church insists on their own mode of
baptism and other initiation rituals.
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Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your
own doing, it is the gift of God—
Lewin uses the physical analogy of the material being unfrozen, processed
and then refrozen in the new state which is very similar to the concept of
metalurgical analogy of greek “baptizo”
These symbolism are marked in many of the early baptismal fonts where a
deep step down leads to a narrow pool of water at the borrom where the
catechumen walk down and are baptized and then come up. It is the walking
in and out of the depths of the earth that gives the renewal symbolism rather
than the water itself. As an example here is are two fonts found in early
Churches. First is from Ephesus and the other from Tunisia
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