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Showing posts with label Baptism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baptism. Show all posts
Thursday, June 25, 2026

Household baptisms, reprise

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In total there are three clear statements referencing “household baptism” in the New Testament (Acts 16:15, 33-34; I Corinthians 1:16), as w...
Monday, June 15, 2026

If ye love me, keep my commandments

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David M. Ramsey recalled the following words, as spoken by the Baptist preacher E. R. Carswell , before baptizing several candidates in the...
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Friday, June 12, 2026

Baptizing babies (or not) in the first century

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I recently heard a Roman Catholic apologist make the statement below about infant baptism. He was referencing the lack of early historical ...
Monday, June 08, 2026

Why Become a Baptist

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David M. Ramsey , brought up in a strict Presbyterian household, left his home in Greenville County, South Carolina around 1875 to attend hi...
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Thursday, February 12, 2026

Immersion of the eunuch by Philip

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Acts 8:38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized h...
Tuesday, February 03, 2026

Baptists and Baptism Lite

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“Baptism has been secularized; God, for all intents and purposes, is shuffled to the sidelines. The entire focus is on what those being bapt...
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Friday, December 05, 2025

Debaptism; who knew?

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Debaptism , noun. The (so-called) practice of “reversing” a baptism. I guess on this I’ve been living under a rock, ignorant in my bliss. Wh...
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Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Credobaptism

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Introduction. “Us simple folk” are more likely to refer to “believer’s baptism” or “believer’s immersion” than to credobaptism – but credoba...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Baptism and the thief on the cross

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Hebrew 9:15-17 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions ...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Some thoughts on 1 John 5:6

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1 John 5:6 - This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit t...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

Philip and the eunuch, Acts 8:26-40

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Reaching out: Philip and the eunuch, 26-40 Direction through Spirit and Providence Verse 26: “the angel of the Lord” speaks to Philip an...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

Repent, and be baptized

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Acts 2:38 - Two imperatives (“repent,” “be baptized”) and a promise (“ye shall receive”). Those who teach baptismal regeneration – that is,...