Immersion Is Not Baptism

by John Beckwith, Michael Rotolo (Editor)

Overview

Of the myriad distinctives that separate denominations one of the most polarizing is the way baptism is understood and then administered. Some churches immerse the subject entirely under water while the others only sprinkle or pour water on the head. While this is an issue that should not prevent Christians from enjoying each other’s fellowship, we should examine the matter with all due diligence and arrive at our own conviction. Your conclusion can lead to enjoying a more confident and richer life in Christ as you
observe this sacrament and support in community the administration of this rite in the way you are convinced best obeys the command.
The main purpose of this book is to refute those that insist that the only true and valid Christian baptism is that accomplished by means of immersion. These are the same that consider those baptized by sprinkling or pouring not only mistaken but yet unbaptized in God’s eyes—and thereby neglectful of fulfilling our Savior’s commandment.
Though Scripture does not explicitly prescribe the mode of baptism in the New Testament passages commanding or describing it, there are compelling arguments for preferring sprinkling over immersion. Let us explore together the various reasons for concluding that the most fitting mode for Christian baptism is that of sprinkling.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012452054
Publisher:	Great Christian Books
Publication date:	04/06/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	50
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Beckwith, John Hubard, A.M., a Congregational minister, was born at Acworth, N. H., Jan. 16, 1811. He was ordained at Middlesex, Vt., 1843, and dismissed in 1845. He was acting pastor at Johnson from 1845 to 1848. He was installed at Middletown in June, 1849, where he remained until Oct. 16, 1855. He then became acting pastor successively at the following places, viz.: at Irasburg, from December, 1855, to December, 1858; at Barton, from 1858 to 1859; at Bristol, from 1859 to I860; at Eaymondsville and Norfolk, N. Y., from 1862 to 1864; in"l864 he was chaplain of the Second United States Colored Infantry; at Evans's Mills, N. Y., from 1866 to 1867; at Washington, D. C, from 1868 to 1871; then, again, acting pastor at Parishville, N. Y., until 1872; at Massena, from 1873 to 1876; at Mumisville, from August, 1876, to October, 1877. He died at Chateaugay, N. Y., Nov. 9, 1877. He published Immersion Not Baptism (1858, small 16mo; republished in 1876).