The Doctrine Of Baptisms - Scriptural Examination Of The Questions Respecting The Translation Of Baptizo, The Mode Of Baptism (1856) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE DOCTRINE OF BAPTISMS CHAPTER I. 1. Statement of the Question. 2. Limitation to Baptito? Reuons for thl. 8. Limitation to Baptize used as a religious Term?Reasons for this?History of the Hellenistic Greek. 4. Radical Fallacy in the Baptist Argument. 1. Statement of the Question. The word baptizo is a word used in the Scriptures to designate the performance of a Christian rite, in which water is applied to the body, in the name of the Trinity. Either this word is specific as to mode, like our English words, dip, sprinkle, pour; or it is generic, denoting simply the production of an effect, like our English wordSj consecrate, purify, cleanse. The Baptist affirms that baptizo is a specific term, that it "has but one signification?it always signifies to dip, never expressing anything but mode." ' 1 Carson on Baptism, p. 55. "We affirm that baptizo, when used as a religious term (and it is always so used in the New Testament), is a generic term, having no reference to .mode; and hence, to translate it by dip, immerse, sprinkle or pour, will be to mis-translate the word of God. In this statement of the question, we have purposely limited it to the word bqptizo, and to that word used as a religious term. 2. Question limited to Baptizo. The question is limited to baptizo. Nothing is affirmed respecting oapto, a word frequently used by the sacred writers. This limitation is made for two reasons. first. The word baptizo, is the word invariably used, in the inspired Scriptures, when speaking of the rite of Christian baptism: the word bapto, although of frequent occurrence in the New Testament, is never applied to that ordinance. Even admitting, then, that bqpto is the primitive word, and baptizo a derivative from it, the fact that the sacred...

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Imprint:	Kessinger Publishing Co
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2009
First published:	December 2009
Authors:	George Dodd Armstrong
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	322
ISBN-13:	978-1-120-75605-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	1-120-75605-7
Barcode:	9781120756053

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