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1 | The baptizer also immersed? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 5720 | ||
Steve Butler, your note has me as confused as a turkey in a hen house. I'm particularly perplexed by your statement, "Therefore, if going down into the water imples immersion, then we must conclude that Philip immersefd himself at the same time he immersed the eunuch." Really? Is that what you think happened? And just how did Philip manage to dunk himself while dunking the eunuch? I'd like to have seen that. It must have been quite a trick. Two people go down into the water, one to baptize the other, but both of them are necessarily immersed. Do I have it right? Have you ever witnessed baptism by immersion? Two people go down into the water, one to baptize the other. That is simple enough to figure out. How does one immerse the other without going into the water with him? And how does the baptizer immerse himself at the same time that he is immersing the person who is being baptized? Do we both understand immersion in the same way as the dictionary defines it, to plunge into something that covers up?......Last week my dentist and I went into a treatment room in his office. He filled two of my teeth. I didn't see him fill two of his teeth while he was filling mine. How was it possible for him to fill my teeth without filling his?.... Some years ago I went into an operating room in the hospital, my surgeon joined me in the same room, and he performed a medical operation on me. But so far as I know he didn't perform any such operation on himself. How was it possible for him to operate on me without operating on himself? Do you think your argument about immersion in water holds water? ....Moreover, in your note you equate Christian baptism with Jewish ceremonial washing. Therefore, should we conclude that apples are the same things as oranges? --Hank | ||||||
2 | The baptizer also immersed? | Bible general Archive 1 | Searcher56 | 5721 | ||
I do know what immersion is. The church I now attend, only the one getting baptized is in the water. The other one is on dry land, separated by a low wall. I grew up in a Baptist church. The way I read Acts 8, I see that both went into the water and came out ... and it does not say there was any immersion, dunking or dipping. We do not know how deep the water was. How do you answer Mark 7:4, Luke 11:38, Hebrews 9:10? Read that post. About the OT in the NT ... there are many examples, and I think this includes baptism. I think immersion is okay. But, if you are in a desert (with no name) and you only had a cup full of water, could you be baptized? |
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3 | The baptizer also immersed? | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 5725 | ||
Steve, if I were in a desert (with no name) -- whatever that means -- and had only a cup full of water, I would probably choose to drink the water and defer my baptism until I found my way to greener pastures. This argument is getting no one anywhere. Pig trails of this sort lead one only to the mire of the sty. I choose to end my participation in it herewith. --Hank | ||||||