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قراءة كتاب Water Baptism A Pagan and Jewish Rite but not Christian, Proven By Scripture And History Confirmed By The Lives Of Saints Who Were Never Baptized With Water
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Water Baptism A Pagan and Jewish Rite but not Christian, Proven By Scripture And History Confirmed By The Lives Of Saints Who Were Never Baptized With Water
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Some assume that Christ gave others authority to baptize which did not extend to Paul.
We cannot believe that all Christ's ministers to the end of the world were commissioned to baptize with water, Paul only rejected.[42] This reflects unjustly upon Paul, the great apostle to us Gentiles.[43] Is it not a mere evasion of the gospel truth here and elsewhere inculcated, that Christ gave no commission to baptize with water?[44]
John the Baptist was sent or commissioned to baptize with water and the Holy Spirit once descended as John baptized with water.[45]
The apostles were commissioned to go preach the Gospel after they should be endued with power from on high.[46]
We read that the Holy Spirit descended as the apostles preached the Gospel. [47] Neither the apostles nor disciples were ever commissioned to baptize with water; and so far as we read, the Holy Spirit never descended as they did baptize with water.
FOOTNOTES:
[31] 1 Cor. 1.17; Acts 13.47; Rom. 1.16
[32] Luke 24.47; Luke 24.49
[33] Mat. 28.19; Mat. 3.11; Mark 1.8; Luke 3.16; Jon. 1.26, 33; Acts 11.16; 1 Cor. 1.17; Acts 10.42
[34] Acts 2.38; Acts 8.16; Acts 10.48; Acts 19.5; Acts 8.12, 13
[35] Acts 8.38; Acts 9.18; Acts 18.8, 25; Acts 16.15, 33
[36] Jon. 4.2
[37] Acts 18.25; Acts 19.3, 5
[38] "The Ante-Nicene Fathers"; "The teachings of the twelve Apostles"; Ecclesiastical History Vol. 1, P. 164
[39] 1 Cor. 1.17
[40] 1 Cor. 1.14
[41] Acts 16.3; Gal. 2.3, 5; 1 Cor. 1.14
[42] 1 Tim. 2.7
[43] 2 Tim. 1.11
[44] 1 Cor. 1.17
[45] Jon. 1.33; Mark 1.10; Luke 3.22
[46] Luke 24.47, 49; Acts 1.4, 8; Acts 10.42, 45; Acts 11.15, 16
[47] 1 Cor. 2.4; 1 Thes. 1.5; 1 Peter 1.12
WATER BAPTISM IN HISTORY AS A PAGAN AND JEWISH RITE.
From the writings of Grotius we gather that some ancients baptized with water in memory of the world being saved from the waters of the deluge.
Bancroft says: It is related by all the old Spanish historians that when the Spaniards first visited Yucatan they found baptism administered to both sexes between the ages of three and twelve: It was the duty of all to have their children baptized, for by this ablution they believed they received a purer nature and were protected against evil spirits and misfortune. None could marry without it.[48]
Some baptised their children with ceremonies, which in many points