One West Camps Do Not Speak for Us: Correcting the False Teaching on Baptism with Scripture Alone

As bloodline Israelites, true descendants of the biblical Hebrews, we refuse to let One West Camp teachers like Captains Tazaryach and ChaaTaza push a false teaching that gets wrongly attached to real Hebrew Israelites. Their position is not our position. We reject it fully and correct it plainly with what the Scriptures actually say.

Here is the clear, verse-by-verse breakdown that shows why their teaching on baptism does not hold up.

Captains Tazaryach and ChaaTaza, your teaching that water baptism is no longer to be done, that it ended after a certain point, is simply not what the Scriptures teach. It only seems strong because you speak quickly, mock opponents, skip important verses, and claim things happened that the Bible never records. We will not let the text get rushed or twisted. We keep every verse in its proper order. We do not add anything the Scriptures leave out. When we read slowly and honestly, your position falls apart.

1. Acts 10 completely refutes your main argument. You teach that Acts 10 shows water baptism was only the old baptism of John, and that by Acts 11 the apostles no longer used water at all. The Scriptures say the exact opposite. The Ruach HaQodesh falls on Cornelius and his household before anything else happens (Acts 10:44-46). Kepha (Peter) sees this and immediately says: "Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized? And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Master" (Acts 10:47-48). Kepha (Peter) commands them to be baptized in water after they have already received the Ruach HaQodesh. Water is still required right then and there. It is not set aside. It is not finished. Acts 11 is simply Kepha (Peter) explaining to the believers in Jerusalem what happened in Acts 10. He is defending why he went to Gentiles. He is not announcing that water baptism has ended. There is not a single sentence in Acts 11 that says the apostles quit using water or that water is no longer needed.
   

Straight question for you: Where do the Scriptures ever say the apostles decided to stop baptizing people with water? Point to that verse for us. You cannot find it, because Acts 10 ends with Kepha (Peter) commanding water baptism, and Acts 11 repeats the story without changing or removing that command.

2. The Scriptures never put immersion in the Ruach HaQodesh and water immersion in opposition. Yahusha Himself commanded the disciples to immerse people from all nations (Matthew 28:19). After Shavuot (Pentecost) the apostles kept doing exactly that: thousands were immersed on the day of Pentecost(Acts 2:38-41), the Ethiopian eunuch went down into the water with Philip (Acts 8:36-38), Cornelius and his household were commanded to be immersed in water (Acts 10:47-48), and the men in Ephesus were immersed again in the name of the Master Yahusha (Acts 19:5). If your teaching is correct, then there must be a clear place in Scripture where Yah or Yahusha or the apostles say water immersion is finished and should no longer be practiced. That place does not exist. The command from Yahusha stands, and the apostles continued to obey it.
   

3. Acts 19 actually proves water immersion was still being done. You point to Acts 19 to say water immersion was only John's and is no longer valid. Read what really happens. Shaul (Paul) meets men who had only received John's immersion. He asks questions, then immerses them again, this time in the name of the Master Yahusha (Acts 19:3-5). If water immersion had already been replaced or set aside, Shaul (Paul) would not have done it again. The chapter ends with them being immersed in water and then receiving the Ruach HaQodesh. Your own example shows water immersion continuing.
   

4. "One immersion" (Ephesians 4:5) does not mean "Ruach only, no water." Scripture describes one immersion that includes both the outward act of water and the inward work of the Ruach HaQodesh. Scripture never teaches that the water component was removed or made unnecessary. That conclusion is imposed on the text rather than drawn from it.
   

5. Symbolic language does not remove literal commands. Yes, Scripture uses water as imagery in places, such as washing by the word and hearts being sprinkled, but imagery never cancels the literal command and practice shown in Acts. Philip and the eunuch went down into actual water (Acts 8:38). Kepha (Peter) states that baptism now saves, not by removing physical dirt, but as an appeal to Yah for a clean conscience through the resurrection of Yahusha, just as Noah’s family was saved through water (1 Peter 3:20–21). The outward water remains part of what Yah commanded.
   

6. The argument about fire being literal if water is literal makes no sense. If fire immersion were literal, people would be burned up. Nothing like that ever happens in Scripture. The "tongues like as of fire" in Acts 2:3 were a visible sign of the Ruach HaQodesh coming. Water, on the other hand, is always something people enter, something apostles command, and something that is actually done. The comparison does not work.

   
   

7. "World" and "whosoever" in John 3:16 are not limited to Israelites only. You try to restrict "the world" and "whosoever believeth" to ethnic Israelites. Show us the verse that puts that limit there. You cannot. Yahuchanon (John) explains his own meaning: Yah so loved the world in such a way that everyone who believes will have everlasting life. John 17:9 is Yahusha praying specifically for His disciples at that moment; it does not change the meaning of "world" or "whosoever" everywhere else in the book. Conclusion

   When we read the Scriptures straight through, in their proper order, and without adding steps or changes that aren't there, the truth is clear and settled. Water immersion never ends. It never gets revoked. It never gets replaced by some Spirit-only version. Yahusha commands immersion for all nations. The disciples obey that command before Shavuot (Pentecost), on the day of Shavuot (Pentecost), and long after Shavuot (Pentecost). The book of Acts never records a single moment where water immersion is removed, suspended, declared unnecessary, or set aside. Every argument against it depends on skipping key verses, twisting plain words, or claiming a change the text never makes.

   Shavuot (Pentecost) did not cancel water immersion. Shavuot (Pentecost) was the outpouring of the Ruach HaQodesh, not the cancellation of Yahusha's command to immerse. On that very day, Kepha (Peter) stood up and told the crowd: "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Yahusha the Messiah for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Ruach HaQodesh" (Acts 2:38). The Spirit was poured out, and water immersion continued exactly as Yahusha had commanded.

   John's immersion was a preparation for the coming of Yahusha. After the resurrection, immersion in the name of Yahusha became the new covenant practice. That immersion still uses water as the outward act, while the Ruach HaQodesh does the inward work. Kepha (Peter) commands it. Shaul (Paul) carries it out. Acts shows it happening again and again. It happens before Shavuot (Pentecost), on Shavuot (Pentecost), and years afterward. The Scriptures speak with one consistent voice on this.

   Captains Tazaryach and ChaaTaza have not revealed some hidden or lost truth. Their teaching only holds up when people let it rush by with speed, mockery, and volume, without stopping to check every verse. When the text is read slowly, honestly, and in sequence, their position falls apart completely.

   We reject this teaching not because of feelings or tradition, but because loyalty to Yah demands that we obey what He and His Son actually commanded. We do not obey what men later claim without a single supporting verse.

   The Scriptures stand firm. Water immersion stands firm. Shavuot (Pentecost) confirms obedience to Yahusha's word. It does not erase it.

   As bloodline Israelites we hold fast to the pure Word of Yah as it is written. One West teachings do not represent us, and we will correct this error plainly and without apology every time it is taught. The Scriptures have the final word, and they have already spoken clearly against this view.