Were they talking about how John baptized Jesus? Because we don’t know. We know He was baptized in a river, but not if He was immersed or water poured/sprinkled on Him or what. As Old Medic points out, we are not told.Please help me explain this from a Catholic perspective. I can’t put my finger on why this sounds odd.
Visiting a Baptist church today, they said you must be baptized by immersion because “that’s why Jesus did” and that the word baptize means “to go under.”
fetish of baptizing “like Jesus”. (And they do; I have many Baptist family members, & I have learned to leave the subject alone unless it is raised by someone else).I wasn’t aware that scripture actually describes how Jesus was Baptized.Please help me explain this from a Catholic perspective. I can’t put my finger on why this sounds odd.
Visiting a Baptist church today, they said you must be baptized by immersion because “that’s why Jesus did” and that the word baptize means “to go under.”
Yes baptize doe mean to submerge or immerse. But it also has other meanings. In Mark 7:4 it refers to a ritual washing. While one most certainly can be baptized by immersion, it is by no means a requirement.Please help me explain this from a Catholic perspective. I can’t put my finger on why this sounds odd.
Visiting a Baptist church today, they said you must be baptized by immersion because “that’s why Jesus did” and that the word baptize means “to go under.”
Though it follows that Jewish baptized according to Jewish ritual you cannot be sure that John the Baptist baptized Jesus with full immersion, can you? After all, John did announce about Jesus who was not exactly what Jewish religion going to be. The point is, one cannot be hundred percent sure that Jesus baptism was of full immersion. It was not told as such. If assumption is the only criteria to base this faith on, wouldn’t it be quite an assumption do you think?
Yes, a big assumption.If assumption is the only criteria to base this faith on, wouldn’t it be quite an assumption do you think?
The Didache, written in Greek in the late first or early second century, says that if you don’t have enough water to immerse you can baptize by pouring. So the linguistic argument fails. Baptism does not have to mean immersion.Please help me explain this from a Catholic perspective. I can’t put my finger on why this sounds odd.
Visiting a Baptist church today, they said you must be baptized by immersion because “that’s why Jesus did” and that the word baptize means “to go under.”
Some groups feel very strongly that if Jesus was baptized by immersion, then one should follow his example to the letter without variance. Others feel like some flexibility is possible depending upon the circumstances. What is interesting is that the words used must be exact. You are way above my paygrade as to when it is acceptable to be flexible and when it is not acceptable. I respect those that feel practice differently than I do. It is interesting how we did things in the early days, but don’t do them now. Do you think it matters?Please help me explain this from a Catholic perspective. I can’t put my finger on why this sounds odd.
Visiting a Baptist church today, they said you must be baptized by immersion because “that’s why Jesus did” and that the word baptize means “to go under.”
No where in the bible does it state that Christ was Baptized by Full Immersion!
What are other false traditions by the Baptists? Is there a thread?
This question is almost impossible to answer. You have to remember that many Baptists are self-described “independent” Baptists. This means that each individual congregation is autonomous with no central authority.
The Bible does not state Christ was Baptized by immersion !
Baptists almost never say something must be done a specific way for it to be valid.
“Valid” is generally not in their vocabulary. It just isn’t the way they talk. However, many believe if you were baptized other than Baptist, “it doesn’t count.”
