The Church of the Brethren actually have six ordinances which include the love feast, the anointing with oil, the laying on of hands, the assembling together for worship, the holy kiss, and trine baptism. There are several reasons the Church of the Brethren believe in trine baptism which means to baptize the person face forward three [...]
Archive for March 24, 2009
The Different Views on Baptism, Part Eight: Trine Baptism
Posted: March 24, 2009 in BaptismTags: Didache, The Church of the Brethern, The teaching of the twelve apostles, Trine Baptism
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Different Views on Baptism, Part Seven, Ultradispensationalism
Posted: March 24, 2009 in BaptismTags: C. I. Scofield, E. W. Bullinger, Grace Gsopel Fellowship, Grace Movement, Les Feldicks, The Berean Searchlight, Ultradispensationalism
Les Feldicks, who is an ultradispensationalists, presents his view on baptism on his on-line Question and Answers, in response to “What is the meaning of baptism.” His answer is found in Book 8 LESSON ONE * PART IV Romans 6:4 “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: (many people will disagree, but [...]
Different Views on Baptism, Part Six, Alien Baptism
Posted: March 24, 2009 in BaptismTags: Alien baptism
Alien baptism means an unbiblical or defective baptism such as infant baptism, or someone baptized in a baptismal regeneration church, or a false profession baptism. We would not hold to alien baptism as practiced by Landmark Baptists who refuse to accept any baptism except those preformed under the auspices of a Landmark Baptist church. When [...]
Different Views on Baptism, Part Five, Landmarkism
Posted: March 24, 2009 in BaptismTags: close communion, closed communion, James Robinson Greaves, Landmarkism, Open communion
James Robinson Greaves is known as the father of Landmarkism. In 1851, Graves called a meeting at the Cotton Grove Baptist Church in Jackson, Tennessee to react to the liberalism creeping into the Southern Baptist Churches. This group formed the Cotton Grove Resolutions which became the organizational document for Landmarkism: 1. Can Baptists with their [...]
Different Views on Baptism, Part Four: Transubstantiation
Posted: March 24, 2009 in BaptismTags: Consubstantiation, Transubstantiation
When Christ commanded the church to observe two ordinances He gave us pictures of two important Christian realities. Baptism equals union with Christ and the Lord’s Supper equals communion with Christ. The Lord’s Supper is a picture or symbol like the Passover. The Lord’s Supper is called different names in the New Testament: It is [...]
Different Views on Baptism, Part Three: Infant Baptism
Posted: March 24, 2009 in BaptismTags: Household salvation, Infant Baptism, Roman Catholic Church
There are some groups that believe infant baptism is necessary for salvation. Roman Catholic Church believes that the sacrament of baptism is necessary for salvation and therefore unbaptized infants go to Limbus Infantium. Augustine believed in the eternal damnation of unbaptized infants. (Bowman, Infant Salvation, page 1.) John Calvin and The Westminster Confession advocate only [...]
Different Views on Baptism, Part Two: Foot Washing
Posted: March 24, 2009 in BaptismTags: Foot Washing, Grace Brethren, Robert Reymond, Roman Catholic Church, Sacraments
The Roman Catholic Church has seven sacraments which include baptism, confirmation, the Lord’s Supper, penance, extreme unction, holy orders, and matrimony. Most Baptist churches only observe two ordinances: Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Some such as the Grace Brethren observe a third ordinance of foot washing based on Jesus command in John 13:14: “If I [...]
Different Views on Baptism, Part One: Baptismal Regeneration
Posted: March 24, 2009 in BaptismTags: "ex opera operato" Charles Ryrie, Baptism Regeneration, Ludwig Ott, Roman Catholic Church, Wayne Grudem
One movement that holds to baptismal regeneration is the Roman Catholic Church. Roman Catholic theologian Ludwig Ott in his Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma clearly represents the RCC: “Baptism is that Sacrament in which man being washed with water in the name of the Three Divine Persons is spiritually reborn…. Faith, as it is not the [...]
