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What constitutes Christian baptism, immersion or sprinkling?
With millions of Bibles in circulation, the Christian does not know. If he affirms, as many scholars affirm, that immersion is the mode authorized by the Bible, then he must admit that the greater portion of Christendom has rejected this mode and adopted one not authorized by the Scriptures.
To whom is this rite to be administered, to both adults and infants, or to adults alone?
After eighteen centuries of controversy; after employing millions of priests to interpret the Scriptures; after Anabaptists and Pedobaptists have baptized their swords in each others’ blood, the church is not prepared to answer.