I want to be baptized into Yahshua’s Name. I believe that it should be done in running, living water like a river. What do you believe?
There is a tradition that baptism is proper only in moving or running water, but the Bible does not state this as a requirement. The only “living water” we find in the New Testament refers to Yahshua in a metaphorical sense (John 4:10,11, 7:38). We see no connection there with baptism. In John 3:23 we find John the Baptist at work: “And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.” Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible note says that springs and streams were prevalent at Aenon. In baptism water is the agent for the figurative burial, Romans 6:3. Must that water be running then? Baptismal waters are an extension of the mikveh in type, an immersion bath for ritual cleansing. Most homes in Jerusalem had these baths.
