Questions on Chapter 14.

explicitly prescribed one to the exclusion of all others, let each one “have the choice of sprinkling, pouring, or immersion.”

QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER 14.

QUESTION 1. What is the doctrine of the “Methodist Discipline” as to the mode of baptism?

2. From what three sources is the scriptural argument derived?

3. What is the Greek word in the New Testament for baptism?

4. How is it defined by lexicographers?

5. Does this settle the controversy?

6. Can it be settled by the etymological argument?

7. Are there any instances in the New Testament in which the Greek word for baptism cannot mean immersion? and what, are they?

8. By what mode were “our fathers” baptized unto Moses? and how is it proved?

9. What is the argument for immersion founded on “John’s baptism”? and how is it answered?

10. What is the argument for immersion founded on the “baptism of our Lord” by John? and how answered?

11. By what mode was the baptism of the “Holy Ghost” administered? and how is this proved?

12. To what two methods have immersionism resorted to ward off the force of this argument?

13. How was the Pentecostal baptism of water probably administered? and how is it proved?

14. What is the argument for immersion founded on the baptism of the Ethiopian eunuch? and how is it answered?

15. State the argument in reference to the baptism of Saul.

16. In reference to the baptism of Cornelius and his friends, what is the argument?

17. How were the Philippian jailer and his household probably baptized? and how is this proved?

18. How were Lydia and her household probably baptized? and how is this shown?

19. What argument against immersion is founded on the symbolic allusions of the Old Testament?

20. What is the argument for immersion founded on St. Paul’s expression, “Buried with Christ by, or in, baptism”? and how is it answered?

21. What is the last resort of the immersionist when driven from his strongholds? and how is his charge of inconsistency against Pedobaptists shown to be groundless?