The Wandering Heretic

Since I am exploring how the Assembly (commonly translated as “church”) is a Gentile attachment to Israel within Gentile Lands, I figured now would be a good time to wish everyone a Happy Passover. Passover is not yet, you say? This is Easter season; Passover is not until April 19th of this year [...]

I have determined that the use of the prayer scarf or head covering on the part of women remains a New Testament stipulation. In my last post, I discussed the example of Rabekah and her use of the veil only in the presence of her husband to be. As such, the use of [...]

I have been discussing the discontinuity between the modern Jewish culture and that which existed in the time of Christ. As engrafted Gentiles, we have been fully placed into Israel. We are now as “special” a part of God’s people as are the Jewish people. As such, we are as much a [...]

I have argued that being “grafted into Israel,” the believing Gentiles enter into the culture and the governmental structure of the nation of Israel. They have been adopted and fully joined into the People of the Israelite God. In this essay, I want to reflect not so much on what it means to [...]

“‘I have long admired our brother Tay Sung.’ - Young Caine
‘There is much in him to be admired.’ - Master Kan
‘I fear that he grows apart from us; from our way.’ - Young Caine
‘He is fired by a deep conviction. Would you have him deny this truth he feels so deeply?’ - Master Kan [...]

To continue my series on baptism, I am going to expand on our citizenship as part of Jesus. Scripture does make Jesus a symbol for the Land promised by God to His people; or the reverse, to be more accurate. However, the symbol does not stop there. Our citizenship in “Jesusland” is [...]

I have made the assertion that Jesus is the “Land” into which we are baptized. As I have already discussed, as Christians were are citizens of Christ in the same way that Philippians are citizens of Philippi or Athenians citizens of Athens. Once this association is made, we can find echoes of this [...]

I have contended that Baptism’s best modern analogy is that of a ritual of citizenship. Through baptism, the recipient changes allegiance from one country to another; from one “nation” to another. The question was then asked, into what country are we being baptized? Though “Heaven” is the quick answer, it by no means [...]

In my posts in this series, I have made the rather controversial point that baptism should only be done for entire families and at the time of conversion of the head of that family. Subsequently born children do not need to be baptized, either as infants or adults. To accord with this pattern—the [...]

In the cultural milieu that Jesus and Paul (and John the Baptist for that matter) operated, water baptism already had a specific place and practice. It already had a defined modus operandi. To quote William Tighe, as cited here:
Gentiles who converted to Judaism—in the case of men by “proselyte baptism” followed by circumcision, [...]