Baptism isn't a symbol or a spell. It's a treaty.

"Before the earliest Christians were lowered into the water, they turned and spoke to the enemy." This piece argues that baptism was never a quiet ceremony — it was a public change of allegiance, a legal transfer of ownership from one kingdom to another, sealed by a word we've badly misread.

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…”