i. Baptism with water is a sign of Baptism with the Holy Spirit. ii. Baptism with the Holy Spirit is represented by sprinkling or pouring. iii. Baptism with water is rightly administered by sprinkling or pouring.
2. Why not immersion?
i. Baptism doesn't mean immersion. ii. Baptism's meaning isn't particularly represented by immersion. iii. Baptisms in the NT are not clearly by immersion.
3. Some implications.
Westminster Confession of Faith (1646) 28:3, “Dipping of the person into the water is not necessary: but baptism is rightly administered by pouring or sprinkling water upon the person.â€
Directory for the Public Worship of God, of Baptism, (FPP 1994 ed, p.383), “As he pronounceth these words, he is to baptise the child with water: which, for the manner of doing it, is not only lawful but sufficient, and most expedient to be, by pouring or sprinkling of the water on the face of the child, without adding any other ceremony.â€
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Neil van der Wel studied at the Reformed Theological College in Geelong, Victoria, from 1997 to 2001. He was ordained into gospel ministry in 2012 and has been serving the Lord in Reformation Presbyterian Church, Rockhampton since September 2015. He is married and has eight...