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Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Baptism of Tom Beathe
It was with great joy that we celebrated with Tom in his baptism last Sunday at All Saints'. We love you Tom and pray for God's continued blessings and presence in your life.
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I thought the original apostolic teaching on baptism is that we are "buried" (immersed) in baptism (Rom 6:4, Col 2:12). The Eunuch went down into the water to be baptized (immersed) and Jesus, our example, came up out of the water after baptism (Mk 1:9-10).
THE early Church admitted three valid methods of baptism: immersion, sprinkling, and pouring. But the Church admitted only one valid set of baptismal words, the Trinitarian. It wasn't enough to baptize only in the name of Jesus.
An early book of instructions for the early church, The Didache (appx 70 AD) has the following:
"After the foregoing instructions, baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in living [running] water. If you have no living water, then baptize in other water, and if you are not able in cold, then in warm. If you have neither, pour water three times on the head, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Before baptism, let the one baptizing and the one to be baptized fast, as also any others who are able. Command the one who is to be baptized to fast beforehand for one or two days" (Didache 7:1 [ca. A.D. 70]).
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I thought the original apostolic teaching on baptism is that we are "buried" (immersed) in baptism (Rom 6:4, Col 2:12). The Eunuch went down into the water to be baptized (immersed) and Jesus, our example, came up out of the water after baptism (Mk 1:9-10).
God bless!
THE early Church admitted three valid methods of baptism: immersion, sprinkling, and pouring. But the Church admitted only one valid set of baptismal words, the Trinitarian. It wasn't enough to baptize only in the name of Jesus.
An early book of instructions for the early church, The Didache (appx 70 AD) has the following:
"After the foregoing instructions, baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in living [running] water. If you have no living water, then baptize in other water, and if you are not able in cold, then in warm. If you have neither, pour water three times on the head, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Before baptism, let the one baptizing and the one to be baptized fast, as also any others who are able. Command the one who is to be baptized to fast beforehand for one or two days" (Didache 7:1 [ca. A.D. 70]).
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