Baptized in Water

We will look at a couple of Roman Catholic baptism traditions in this post. Not everything that Rome teaches about baptism is wrong from the Protestant perspective. We ought to recognize the truth where it lies, even if we find it hidden in catacombs under the Church. The Catechism of the Catholic [...]

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We will look at a couple of Anglican baptism traditions in this post. Central to my argument is the idea that baptism has been around for a very long time, longer than most people can even imagine. It goes past Jesus, past John the Baptist, past the Jewish sects, deep into the Old [...]

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Did the Apostolic Fathers have anything to say about baptism? Certainly, they did!
The Didache (50-120 A.D.) is one of the earliest Christian writings of the early church outside of the New Testament. Concerning baptism it says,
Baptize this way: Having first said all these things, baptize into the name of the Father, and of [...]

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We here at www.baptizedinwater.org are Reformed Baptists. The worship services in our represented churches are patterned to some degree after the Genevan Reformer John Calvin’s liturgy. We like liturgy (which literally means an order of service, which every service no matter how opposed to the term “liturgy” has), because it provides a model [...]

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Ancient and modern practices of Jewish baptism are an important field of study when it comes to Christian baptism. More and more, Scholars are seeing how a proper understanding of our Jewish roots informs many seemingly strange things about Christianity.
Jews practice(d) something called a mikveh. A mikveh is a ritual bath in [...]

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When it comes to baptism Scripture alone must have the final say. Many people run to tradition for clarity on the matter of baptism. Tradition is a good and I believe necessary thing to use to confirm that something we see is derived from Scripture was seen by other people. Tradition guards [...]

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In Christian baptism Christianity is set apart from all the other religions of the world. This is ironic, since many other religions to this day practice baptism. Hindus bathe ritualistically in the Ganges River. Mormons practice baptisms, even for the dead. Jews perform mikveh baths. How is Christian baptism different?
Several [...]

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How do Catholic baptisms differ from biblical baptisms? They differ both in style and substance. The substance is the important part, and it is what I will address in this blog. Catholics believe that baptism is the sacrament that imparts justification, but justification in this sense is a process rather than a [...]

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Why is it that with regard to baptism churches can’t seem to agree? Many people ask questions like this as an attempt to demonstrate that the disagreement shows irreconcilable contradictions within Christianity, and therefore the whole religion should be chucked. The problem with this kind of statement is that you can find someone [...]

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Why do Baptists practice baptism by immersion? New Testaments arguments include 1) The idea that Jesus went up out of the water (Matthew 3:16; Mark 1:8; Acts 8:39), and that therefore he had to have been submerged; and 2) the idea that “plenty of water” was around to bathe in (John 3:23), which was [...]

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