Baptism or Mikvah

All of us are aware of the concept of baptism, we might not agree about the importance it holds for the Believer. We're also aware of the disagreements concerning baptism, infant baptism or adult baptism, immersion or sprinkling? Where did "baptism" come from? Did John "invent" the idea of baptism? Is baptism necessary for salvation? Is there one baptism or more than one? What does it mean to be baptized "into" the name of Y’shua and into His death? Those are just a few of the many questions concerning this subject. Like with so many aspects of Christianity, virtually everything goes back to its Hebrew roots. The fact is we serve a Hebrew God. The Scripture has much to say about immersion, or the doctrine of washing/baptisms, but it is still one of the most misunderstood teachings in Scripture. This doesn’t appear to have been a problem for the first century believers, however.