Jerusalem Blade
Puritan Board Professor
I've spent years learning to defend – and defending – various aspects of paedobaptism, though I haven't, until recently, focused on sprinkling or pouring rather than immersing as the Biblical mode of baptism. I'm going through some books I have that are very helpful, though if anyone has a fairly brief, easy to understand and easy to communicate presentation of sprinkling, I'd love to hear it – and would be most grateful.
The tack I'm presently exploring is that in the OT sprinkling of blood, and also of water, was for cleansing from the defilement of sin, and this would have been a clear sign of cleansing – also logistically quite viable with large crowds and/or little water – for John the Baptist, and the Jerusalem baptisms after Peter preached in Acts 2:37, 38, 39, 41; and also likely after Acts 4:4.
Two passages that are very interesting are Ezekiel 36:25, 26, 27; and also, speaking of the suffering servant / Messiah, is Isaiah 52:15.
At any rate, anyone one who is exercised in this matter – I'm all ears!
The tack I'm presently exploring is that in the OT sprinkling of blood, and also of water, was for cleansing from the defilement of sin, and this would have been a clear sign of cleansing – also logistically quite viable with large crowds and/or little water – for John the Baptist, and the Jerusalem baptisms after Peter preached in Acts 2:37, 38, 39, 41; and also likely after Acts 4:4.
Two passages that are very interesting are Ezekiel 36:25, 26, 27; and also, speaking of the suffering servant / Messiah, is Isaiah 52:15.
At any rate, anyone one who is exercised in this matter – I'm all ears!
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