It Can't Be Done

It Can't Be Done

If I gave you a cup of dirt and told you to bury a corpse, you would think I was crazy! It can't be done! If a took a cup of water and said, "With this I am burying you with Christ," you would think I had lost my senses. Yet the Bible plainly says that "We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised from the dead, ...so we also might walk in newness of life" (Rom. 6:4). Every time a priest or minister sprinkles or pours water on the head of a subject and says he is baptizing him, he is making this impossible claim. John the Baptist was baptizing at Enon, near to Salim, because there was much water there" (John 3:23). Jesus went to John to receive baptism. He went down into the water, for Mark observes that after the baptism, the Lord was "coming up out of the water...." (Mark 1:9-10). When Philip baptized the nobleman from Ethiopia "they both went down into the water...and he baptized him." (Acts 8:38). In the early days of Christianity immersion in water was the universal practice of the churches. That is the original definition of the word "baptize."

No right thinking person would try to bury a corpse with a cup of dirt, and no one familiar with God's word would accept a cup of water poured on his head for a burial with Christ in baptism.

If you would like to know more about salvation and Christian baptism, we will be happy to correspond with you and discuss it.

Sincerely,

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