But notwithstanding all that you have said, water baptism ought to go before the church-membership; shew me one in all the New Testament, that was received into fellowship without it.
But do you not count that by water baptism, and not otherwise, that being the initiating and entering ordinance; they ought to be received into fellowship?
Therefore, whenever in the New Testament baptism is commanded for preachers to administer or sinners to obey, it can never refer to Holy Spirit baptism, but must always refer to water baptism.
If the Lord was then concerned to have preachers set right on water baptism, even when their gospel knowledge was accurate in every other particular, does he not have a similar concern now?
Some not being able to rightly divide the Word of God have taken some texts that teach the baptism of the Spirit to be the baptism of water, and thus confused the true object of water baptism.
Unlearned as he was, he readily understood from the preaching of Philip the importance of water baptism; therefore when they came to a certain water he said, “See here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
How can an instance of water baptism be more plainly recorded?
He combats the Gnostics in the writings: De baptismo (against the Gnostic rejection of water baptism); Adv.
In very early times a martyr death was prized as a sin-atoning Lavacrum sanguinis, which might even abundantly compensate for the want of water baptism.
Water baptism is essential to salvation, so somewhere between the time I went down into the water and came up out of it, I was converted.
Jake, what good iswater baptism if our lives are not changed?
And, if water baptism is essential to the obtaining of salvation, then two other things besides the blood of Jesus are necessary whenever a soul is saved.
D] The New Testament is replete with instances of water baptism standing in connection with though, as a rule, preceding the baptism of, the Holy Spirit.
They claimed no divine authority for using this formula and the disciples of water baptism in our day mostly discard it.
We will turn first to the one only recorded allusion which our Saviour ever made to water baptism.
Water baptism is the beginning of the cleansing process.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "water baptism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
