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Requirements
for a Scriptural Baptism
Proper
Administrator
The
Scriptures require that the man who baptizes be an ordained teacher in the
church. This point is easily confirmed by reviewing the record of the early
church in the book of Acts. It was only the apostles or other ordained teachers
who baptized in the New Testament.
Proper
Subject
The
Scriptures teach that an individual to be baptized must first repent and
believe the gospel. This requires the subject to be of sufficient age to
comprehend the essential elements of the gospel and agree with them. The Scriptures
know nothing of baptizing infants. The subject of baptism must have an active
conscience in order to give answer.
Proper
Doctrine
The
essential elements of the gospel that must be believed prior to baptism centre
around the Lord Jesus Christ and His role as the Son of God and the only
Saviour from sin. The Person of Jesus Christ is the basis of true
doctrine.
Proper
Mode
Baptism
is an immersion of the subject completely underwater. This is done to
represent (show a likeness or figure of) the burial and resurrection of Christ,
which put away our sins. As everyone knows, a thing is neither buried nor
planted with only a sprinkling. Baptism must provide a figure of the
resurrection of Christ, which is only done by immersion.
Proper
Design
Baptism
does not put away sin. It is only a figure of how our sins were put away by
Christ's death and resurrection. Baptism is simply an answer and testimony to
God for what He did by Himself. It is the answer toward God of a conscience
made good by the blood of Christ.
http://www.letgodbetrue.com/bible/baptism/requirements.php
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Michael
Lim
Oh
my! That's diving! No burying at all.
(diving below the surface!)
Jorge
Proper
authority
Sing
PB
authority! <LOL> - to JQ, that is!
I
sure hope you have absolute certainty that yours can be traced through an
unbroken link of authority all the way back to Christ!
It
ain't wise to be righteous over much, and shoot oneself in the foot!
Ecc 7:16 "Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?"
Julio
Mark
11:33 And they answered and said unto Jesus, We cannot tell. And Jesus
answering saith unto them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these
things.
Jorge
There
was a man sent from God,whose name was John
Sing
Jorge,
then, I sure hope you have absolute certainty that yours can be traced through
an unbroken link of authority all the way back to John the Baptizer.
In
addition, I hope there were no churches along that unbroken line that were no
worse than the churches you so arrogantly dismiss as no NT church!
Jorge
Arrogantly
dismiss?
And
all the people that heard Him, and the Publicans, justified God, being baptized
with the baptism of John.
But the Pharisees and lawyers ( ? ? ?)rejected the counsel of God againts themselves, being not baptized of him. Luke 7:29,30
Sing
Jorge,
you don't get the point.
Supposing
some churches along your so-called unbroken line were no better than Arminian
churches which you contemptuously dismiss as no churches at all, then what
happened?
OK,
you may insist that there is NO such possibility, and you are indeed confident
that all the churches in your so-called unbroken line of authority were like
the doctrinally sound PB churches that you belong to today, I say, "God
bless you for your confidence."
Jorge
They
will remain as a PARA Church
Sing
If
PARA churches were found along your so-called unbroken line from which you
derive your authority as a church, then by your own mouth, yours is no better
than a PARA church - just thinking out loud for you.
Jorge
I
know you believe in truth perpetuity?
Sing
Jorge,
you know what I admire about you?
You
are more PB than many PBs I am acquainted with.
You
are a good PB convert. I admire you for that.
Jorge
So
as well in Church perpetuity who holds the truth.
If
we are not new, we belong to the old, because old is better. God bless you, Sir
Sing
Thanks
for your PB benediction. Thank you very much, Jorge.
I
prefer the new over the old - I love reading Hebrews <LOOOOOL>
Jorge
First
century was older than 1689 LOL! nyt
Sing
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
- so many PBs (old school may be) adopted that accursed (by the new school
PBs???) 1689 as their own Confession of Faith - as the Fulton Confession of
Faith 1900.
You aren't wise MOCKING your PB forefathers.
Jorge
Oh!
you are certified PB, find your forefathers' remnants and embrace them
Jorge
You
cannot deny that your doctrine is PB's doctrine
Sing
I
got it from the Bible. The 1689 helped me much.
Ro
13:7 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom
to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
Jorge
The
Bible helps me much.
Sing
Then
why do you call it PB doctrine?
I
got my doctrine from the Bible. The 1689 helped me much what the Baptist
fathers had believed.
Jorge
PB
doctrine is Bible doctrine
Koh
Han Seow
If
baptism is only a figure and does not guarantee salvation, why the mode is so
important?
Sing
Good
question.
Baptism
is a figure of the salvation ALREADY, and FREELY, and SOVEREIGNLY bestowed. And
baptism by immersion CORRECTLY represents that glorious truth that the baptismal
candidate has DIED, and RISEN with Christ, to newness of life.
That
is the simple reason why ONLY believers are to be baptized. Infant baptism is
like conferring a degree to a babe!!!
Obeying
what the Bible says is important enough to me.
A
figure that does not correctly represent the reality it claims to represent is,
at best, misleading, at worst, it is a sham.
Craig
Is
there a minimum age to baptize a believer by immersion? Are there scriptural
guidelines here?
Sing
Not
that I'm aware of! A believer's baptism makes that a moot point. If one is old
enough to profess faith, then IMMERSION wouldn't be a problem. Having said
that, even immersing a baby is not a problem either. A child is completely
immersed in the amniotic fluid before birth.
Craig
What
is the age of the youngest person you have baptised Sing?
Sing
16-17,
I think.
