averagefellar, I ask you to look at acts 8 again. The text says "they both went down into the water." Then "he baptized him." Then they "came up out of the water." The language in this text does not talk about baptism by immersion. If it does then both Philip and Eunuch were baptized for they both went down into the water and came up out of the water. What we can see is the baptism took place sometime between going down into the water and coming up out of the water.

Lets look at a few other baptism accounts. The baptism of 3000 in acts 2 in Jerusalem. Was it by immersion? In what water? Jerusalem water supply was by underground cisterns. There was no large lakes in Jerusalem and if there had been it would of been under the control of the Pharisees.

In acts 10 when Cornelius and his family were baptized Peter did not say "can anyone forbid me a lake or a pool" but he said "Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people"

In acts 9 the jailer in Philippi seems to be baptized right there at the jail. It says "he rose and was baptized."

Last edited by Soli Deo Gloria; Fri Dec 31, 2004 2:09 PM.