{"id":4631,"date":"2012-07-26T13:35:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T17:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/?p=4631"},"modified":"2012-07-26T13:35:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T17:35:58","slug":"dunked-for-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/2012\/07\/26\/dunked-for-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunked for Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"dunked\"<\/a>
The two Landuma boys on the right were baptized this summer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Have you been dunked?<\/p>\n

Two Landuma boys were dunked this summer.<\/p>\n

One of them said:<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that I am a sinner. I know that my struggling to do good works can\u2019t obtain for me forgiveness for my sin. I also believe that Jesus Christ came to the world and died in our place concerning our sin. That\u2019s why I want to be dunked here in water in the name of God and Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a great testimony to those who gathered to watch the event, including many unsaved people. Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n

But you may be wondering why he said \u201cdunked in water\u201d instead of \u201cbaptized.\u201d It\u2019s the difference between translation and transliteration.<\/p>\n

Huh?<\/p>\n

Transliteration <\/em>means to basically use a foreign word without really translating it. Translating, of course, means to not use a foreign word.<\/p>\n

So in most English Bibles, the Greek word baptizo <\/em>is not translated as \u201cimmerse,\u201d which is what it means, but transliterated as baptize.<\/p>\n

But in the Landuma Bible, it\u2019s translated as puk<\/em>, pronounced pook, which means \u201cdunk\u201d or \u201cimmerse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gee, does that make their translation more accurate than ours?<\/p>\n

By the way, Jesus\u2019 cousin is known in Landuma as Yahaya Wapuk <\/em>\u2013 John the Dunker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you been dunked? Two Landuma boys were dunked this summer. One of them said: \u201cI believe that I am a sinner. I know that my struggling to do good works can\u2019t obtain for me forgiveness for my sin. I also believe that Jesus Christ came to the world and died in our place concerning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}