Tag: immersion

For a long time during my baptist days, I accepted the false assumption that the Greek word baptizo meant immerse. With others who make this assumption, I just ignored verses that did not support my views. There are many such verses in the New Testament, but here are two examples:  Mark 7:4, where tables are…

One of the errors that Baptists make is to take one meaning of the Greek word baptivzw  and make it the only meaning. Here is a quote from Dr. Leonard Coppes, OPC pastor and author, showing how erroneous this practice can be. It is certain that John the Baptist preached a “baptism of repentance.”  John…