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Most Christians would say that Numbers is a book that they avoid reading. And I admit that the censuses of Israel, from which the book gets ...

" Upon You have I leaned from before my birth; You are He who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of You "...

" We were buried, therefore, with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of th...

One of the claims made by certain groups, such as Baptists and Seventh-Day Adventists, regarding baptism is that immersion is the required m...

Opponents of infant baptism will often make arguments such as, "God has no grandchildren." Which is both true and irrelevant to ...

One conclusion that I have had from the debate over believers' baptism versus infant baptism is that it is not a matter of the scriptura...

On the Desert Road to Gaza When it comes to the mode of baptism, all Baptists, most (maybe all) Pentecostals, and other groups, claim th...

Baptists will often cite the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist (Matthew 3:13-17, Mark 1:9-11, Luke 3:21-22) as evidence of immersion as t...

"[Abraham] received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The...

News out of Owensboro, KY, reports that the Daviess-McLean Baptist Association has refused membership (by a lopsided vote of 104-9) to the ...

" I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into M...

" Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized into ...

Finally, Hodge reviews the examples of baptism in the New Testament. He concludes that none require immersion, and in several, immersion ...

Where Hodge most vigorously opposes the immersionists, I think, is in the symbology of baptism. Where Baptists customarily describe baptism ...