Circumcision and the baptism
Circumcision is a ceremony to cut a part of the body. Circumcision means the faith to take off the fresh and receiving promise of the seed from God. Israelites circumcised in eighth day after they were born in the Old Testament. But they forgot all the meanings contained in the circumcision, and did not recognize the Messiah. Baptism is the ceremony that is dies in water and is born again by the Holy Spirit. So they go into and out of the water, or they consume water. They believe that the former is dead and the be newborn through this ritual. So they gain the life associated with Jesus Christ who was died on the cross. Every day they act as the life of self-denial. Only the repentant lives as this life because the repentance is the life of the self-denial. They turn to the word of God from the love of the world. Circumcision and the baptism have the same meaning. Circumcision and the baptism are the death of the oldself and the be born again. Circumcision is the belief that it will b...