(dipping, bathing). Christian baptism is the ordinance or rite commanded in which water is used to initiate the recipient into the house of God — the profession of Christianity. Baptism identifies the person with the one they are baptised to. The children of Israel were identified with Moses (1 Cor. 10:2), the repenting Jews with John (Matt. 3:6) and the one baptized unto Christ with Christ (Gal. 3:27). Christian baptism is by going under water and done in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit (Matt. 28:19). The church itself was from on the day of Pentecost by the baptism of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2; 1 Cor. 12:13).