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Welcome to the Naked Bible Podcast.

In the last episode of the podcast, I reviewed my view of the meaning of baptism and applied

it to adult or believer's baptism.

In this episode, I want to focus on the issue of the mode of baptism, how it's done.

As most listeners know, most churches that baptize infants use sprinkling as a mode, while

most that reject infant baptism use immersion or dipping.

The recipients of baptism go into the water once or three times.

There's some boundary crossing in certain circumstances, though, as some Greek Orthodox

churches, at least according to what I've read, immerse infants at baptism.

Storing is much less common today, though early in church history it was prevalent, since

it seemed more consistent with the washing language of several passages connected to baptism.

So who's right?

For reasons that will become clear, I really don't think it matters at all.

Some scholars seek to prove that sprinkling or pouring was the New Testament apostolic

practice on the basis of archaeology and other ancient texts outside the New Testament that

talk about the New Testament.

For example, baptistries and baptismal fonts, known from the fourth or fifth centuries

AD, are much too small for immersing, and so it's argued that this suggests sprinkling

or pouring.

Pictures in the form of frescoes dating to as early as the third century AD depict acts

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