Crossing swords with the credobaptists has led me into yet deeper waters to come face to face with the unsavory realization that Presbyterians really do stand alone. In fact, the distinction that paedobaptists and credobaptists have really point to the meaning of baptism in general. Is the correct mode of baptism to be realized with the immersionists or from the affusionists? To start this discussion off with later posts I will end this one with a quote from Dr. Robert Rayburn who wrote a little book for laymen entitled, "What About Baptism?" He says:
"The most uneducated reader cannot fail to see that in the New Testament believers were not dipped into the Spirit, nor were they immersed in Him, nor plunged down into Him; but, to the contrary, the Spirit was shed forth, was poured out, fell, came, or rested upon them, and as a result they were baptized with the Holy Ghost. Baptism then is not the person's being put into the element, but rather the element's being put upon the person. It is impossible to prove anything from Scripture if this point is not proved: that a person is properly baptized when the element of the baptism is put upon him."
-Joe
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