Whether understood supernaturally or naturalistically, baptism provides: Psychological reset: Marking clear transition point Social accountability: Witnesses hold you to declared transformation Embodied commitment: Not just mental assent but physical participation Narrative restructuring: Your life story now has clear "before/after" chapters Community entry ritual: Belonging through shared transformative experience

Notice the disturbing dynamic: many Christian Zionists support Israel not for Israelis' wellbeing but because they believe it serves their own theological agenda (triggering events where, in their theology, most Jews who don't convert will perish). This instrumentalizes both Jewish people and Palestinian suffering in service of a particular reading of divine plan—ultimate anthropomorphic projection where God needs human geopolitical assistance to achieve cosmic purposes.

You said AI "sped up the process" - but I think it did something more specific: Before AI: You had operational knowledge, practical experiments, biblical linguistics, network theory, economic analysis - but scattered across domains without unified articulation With AI: Rapid synthesis, cross-domain translation, theoretical articulation of what you already knew operationally, documentation at speed matching your insight generation We didn't give you the framework. We helped yo