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       WATER BAPTISM DISPUTES
   DIR By: doug
       Date: December 7, 2025, 2:51 pm
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       In churches there is a lot of dispute over water baptism. Some
       sprinkle and some immerse. What does scripture say in this
       regard?
       [Luke 7:24 KJV] "And when the messengers of John were departed,
       he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye
       out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the
       wind?"..........John water baptized by sprinkling water off of a
       water soaked reed. John would be hard pressed to immerse all of
       repentant Israel. There is a precedent in scripture of
       sprinkling........[Exodus 24:6 KJV] "And Moses took half of the
       blood, and put [it] in basons; and half of the blood he
       sprinkled on the altar."
       [Matthew 3:16 KJV] "And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up
       straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened
       unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove,
       and lighting upon him:".........some justify water immersion
       based on this passage. Jesus "went up" out of the water verifies
       he was immersed in water. It could be that he was standing in
       the water when sprinkled by John, and never having been
       immersed, walked onto dry ground.
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