christianity

I was raised episcopalean, and thus I already understand christianity more than the other religions we've studied so far. I didn't, however, know much about Jesus' life. For starters, I never knew that baptism was originally a jewish concept, not to mention that a second baptism was essentially one of the worst things a jew could do. In that way, I understand the christian baptism as "rebirth" - in Jesus' time, most christians would have been jewish converts, as opposed to babies born christian, so the second baptism would make sense as a rebirth as a christian.