The Rickety Bridge and the Broken Mirror: Two Parables of Paedobaptism and One Parable of the Death of Jesus Christ Paperback 0595438164 9780595438167 Harold Brunson

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• Author: Harold Brunson
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• ISBN13: 9780595438167

'John and Christ administered baptism totins corpore submersione, by the submission of the whole body . The very word baptize . signifies to immerse entirely, and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.'

'The Greek word baptizo means immerse or plunge, and the word baptisma means immersion.'

'Immersion of the whole body was used from the beginning, which expresses the force of the word baptize, whence John baptized in a river. It was afterward changed into sprinkling, though it is uncertain when or by whom.'

'Baptism is immersion in water.'

'It is true that there is no express command to baptize infants in the New Testament, no express record of the baptism of infants, and no passages so stringently implying it that we must infer from them that infants were baptized.'

'There is no Biblical basis for infant baptism-this tradition is simply an old error of the church.'