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Folks today
are sprinkling or pouring water on an individual and calling it
baptism, but is sprinkling or pouring a baptism? After a
thorough
reading of the New Testament, you will come to learn that Bible
Baptism is not a sprinkling or pouring, but a burial.
Consider
New Testament teaching on this subject:
Jesus Teaches A
Burial. When Jesus
was baptized by John the Immerser in
the Jordan river, the Bible reveals that He “came
up
immediately from the water” (Mt. 3:14). If Jesus
came up
from the water, He must have gone down into it!
John The Immerser
Teaches A Burial.
Why do you suppose John was
“baptizing in Aenon near Salim”? John
3:23 reveals
“because there was much water there”.
This clearly
indicates that much water was needed because John was immersing or
burying.
Paul Teaches A
Burial. Paul penned
that we are “buried with Him
(Christ) in baptism” (Col. 2:12). A reading of
Romans 6:3-4
reveals that “Or do you not know that as many of us as were
baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?" Therefore we
were buried with Him through baptism into death.
The Eunuch
Teaches A Burial.
Acts 8:38 states, “both Philip and
the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized
him.”
Why go down into the water if baptism is just a sprinkling or
pouring?
The Greek Teaches
A Burial. The Greek
word for baptize is
“baptizo.” Thayer’s Greek
Lexicon states that
“baptizo” means to “to dip repeatedly, to
immerse,
submerge…to cleanse by dipping or
submerging…”
Have you been baptized, immersed, for
the remission
of your sins as the Bible teaches (Acts 3:38)? Come hearing,
believing, repenting, confessing Christ and be baptized
today!
~Keith N. Welch
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