The Articles of Faith / A Series of Lectures on the Principal Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

by James E. Talmage

1. State what you know of the earliest revelation from God regarding baptism.

2. What is the special purpose of baptism? (Give proofs, 1, from the Bible; 2, from the Book of Mormon; 3, from modern revelation.)

3. Who are fit subjects for Baptism?

4. Show that infant baptism is unscriptural (1, that it is unsustained by the Bible; 2, that it is forbidden in the Book of Mormon, and by modern revelation).

5. Give a brief account of the history of infant baptism.

6. Define:—"Pedobaptists;" "Anabaptists." (Give derivation of the terms and their present meanings.)

7. Prove by scriptural evidence that baptism is essential to salvation (1, from the Bible; 2, from the Book of Mormon; 3, from the Doctrine and Covenants).

8. Why was Christ's baptism a necessity?

9. Give a summary of the reasons upon which the Latter-day Saints base their belief that immersion is the only true mode of baptism.

10. Show what evidence is furnished by the derivation of the word "baptize," and its early usage.