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How is baptism connected to conversion? Forgiveness? Salvation? Should the church baptize children? Can someone be baptized twice? Who has the authority to baptize? The controversy which surrounds these topics stems from too much philosophizing and, says Ironside, a misreading of Scripture. Ironside aims to solve the problem by offering a comprehensive and clear scriptural teaching on baptism....

sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow” (1 Pet. 1:11). It is plain, then, that it is not merely as an example for us that Jesus was baptized. His baptism was altogether of a different nature from that which He instituted after His resurrection, and for quite a different purpose. One has well said: “He was baptized to identify Himself with a rejected remnant. We, by baptism, are identified with a rejected Christ.” The testimony of John was but preparatory. In the new dispensation we
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