blhowes
Puritan Board Professor
Well, I've decided to try again to come to grips with what I believe about baptism. My approach is to first look at all the verses that talk about baptism in the NT, see what they collectively say, and see if there are enough unanswered questions (in my mind) that compel me to look to the OT for answers. Hopefully at the end of the study I'll either be a stronger baptist...or a converted paedo.
I'd like to ask help as I go along, so I've opened up this thread so I can ask questions as they arise. Some of the questions probably won't have any relevance to the main study I'm doing, but I'll ask the questions anyway and later decide their irrelevance.
Anyway, I've collected all the verses and am arranging them into categories now. I have a couple questions right up front that I'm curious about.
1Co 15:29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
1) What is Paul talking about here, baptized for the dead?
Mat 3:1,5,6 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,...Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
2) Any idea who coined the title "John the Baptist"?
3) Multitudes went to John and were baptized. When they heard the call to repent, confess their sins, and be baptized, is this a practice (baptism) they were familiar with, based on their understanding of the OT (as opposed to being familiar with it because it was the tradition/practice of the Essenes (or whoever))?
I'd like to ask help as I go along, so I've opened up this thread so I can ask questions as they arise. Some of the questions probably won't have any relevance to the main study I'm doing, but I'll ask the questions anyway and later decide their irrelevance.
Anyway, I've collected all the verses and am arranging them into categories now. I have a couple questions right up front that I'm curious about.
1Co 15:29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
1) What is Paul talking about here, baptized for the dead?
Mat 3:1,5,6 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,...Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
2) Any idea who coined the title "John the Baptist"?
3) Multitudes went to John and were baptized. When they heard the call to repent, confess their sins, and be baptized, is this a practice (baptism) they were familiar with, based on their understanding of the OT (as opposed to being familiar with it because it was the tradition/practice of the Essenes (or whoever))?