Pay attention please.
Christ come to baptise us thru Spirit and Fire. But your interpretation is not supported by the Scriptures.
Infact, when Christ comes as Chief Priest in the Order of Melkisedeq, He baptise us thru Spirit, and this is written in Acts 11,15-16: "15] And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.
[16] Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost", to show you that the coming down of the Spirit is the so called "Chrysmation", that is in the Ethiopian Church the rite of annointing the one who has just been baptised, and the Oil is the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit /Menfes Qeddus. Baptism infact is "immersion", and the process of baptism is 1) down in the water, immersion in the water , 2) immersion in the Spirit. So John said those things about the way of Baptism that Christ would have brought forth, not because water is inferior to Spirit, but because John 's baptism was actually "symbolic", allow me to say, in the sense that his baptism only thru water could not save us, as indeed Christ's alone can. John's Baptism was introductory, was performed to "prepare the way of the Lord" (Mark 1,3), to be then replaced by Christ's Baptism, the True Saving baptism of Iyasus Krstos.
Water and Spirit are needed altogheter, and without the first ther is no second and vise versa.
Just like when Iyasus Krstos went out of the baptismal Water with John the Baptist by His Side, and the Spirit suddenly came down in the shape of a dove, Spirit.
Then must come Fire, as again Peter says..
2Pet.3 Verses 5 to 9
[5] For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
[6] Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
[7] But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
[8] But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
[9] The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
so let me say fire is not a mystical element of strenght that come with baptism, and such things. but it is actually the fire of war and punishment, recognized by us all in WW2.
I exhort you not to take such positions of your own, but to seek knowledge from the thru and original Source, the One given to us by His Majesty Haile Selassie I, God and King, Christ in His Kingly Character: the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia, named Tewahedo. Follow the path lead down by the Apostolic Tradition and Ethiopian Orthodoxy.
Check out this glorious site www.AbbaYesehaq.com , about Abuna Yesehaq, the Bishop sent by His Majesty to teach Rastafarians in the west about Ethiopia, that we may glorify H.I.M. much more again.
give thanks
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