Questions about adult baptism article
I was invited to an adult baptism and wanted to do a self-inquiry to find out more about the mad rash of adult baptisms. Will you please help me to process the points in this article: http://bit.ly/2hqNw2k Thank you so much for your reply!
The article is a classic example of portraying baptism as an act that people perform for God instead of seeing baptism as the Bible teaches it. The Bible teaches that baptism is a wondrous working of God that brings forgiveness of sins, life and salvation into people’s hearts and lives.
The author of the article understands baptism simply as a symbol, representing the believer’s commitment to Christ. The author denies that baptism washes away sins. The author does not understand how differently authors of classical, non-biblical literature used the Greek verb “to baptize,” compared to the way in which Bible writers did. The Bible writers did not prescribe a mode of how to apply water in baptism. Finally, the author denies infant baptism.
Baptism is God’s saving work (Titus 3:5-7; 1 Peter 3:21). It washes away sins (Acts 2:38; 22:16). There are good, biblical reasons to baptize children (Matthew 28:19; Psalm 51:5; Luke 18:15-17).
The article entirely misses the mark on the biblical truth of baptism. This link will provide a good read from Forward in Christ on what the Bible teaches about baptism.