In previous centuries, rulers of both state and church launched persecutions against Baptists for this practice. Why then do many people regard baptism as practiced by Baptists to be our distinctive? A possible reason is that Baptists are one of the very few denominations which practice believer’s baptism by immersion and do so as a symbol of having been saved, not as a requirement for salvation. That like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father,Įven so we also should walk in newness of life.”Īsk most non-Baptists (and even some Baptists!) what is the Baptist distinctive and they likely will say, “Baptism of adults by immersion.” Of course, there is no one Baptist distinctive. “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death:
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