It has been 25 years since the crucifixion. Apollos had apparently heard the preaching of John the Baptist regarding "The Lamb of God Who Takes Away the Sins of the World." But he apparently left prior to the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. So he was preaching an incomplete Gospel. His "disciples" believed an incomplete Gospel (1 Cor 15). An incomplete Gospel does not save, and thus their baptism was invalid. Neither was Apollos ordained by any church to perform valid NT church baptism.
Those "disciples" heard the Gospel, believed, and submitted to baptism.
Old Covenant baptism
Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by Covenanter, Feb 5, 2018.
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Martin Marprelate Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Old Covenant baptism is (sort of) found in Mark 7:2-4. ‘Now when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, with unwashed (Gk. Anniptos) hands, they found fault. For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash (Gk. Nipto) their hands in a special way, holding the tradition of the elders. When they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash (Gk. Baptizo). And there are many other things which they have received and hold, like the washing (Gk. Baptismos) of cups, pitchers, copper vessels, and couches.’
Now we’re looking here at two different scenarios. Whatever the Pharisees were doing they always gave their hands a ceremonial wash before eating. However when they had been in the market-place and had potentially come into contact with all sorts of sinners and Gentiles, a mere hand-wash was quite insufficient; they would bathe their whole selves, and if any furniture were to become unclean for any reason they would place it in water in order to cleanse it. Surely not the dining couches? Yes, even them. They did it in the desert, why not in Israel? ‘Anything on which any of them [unclean reptiles] falls when it is dead shall be unclean, whether it is any item of wood or clothing or skin or sack, whatever item it is, in which any work is done, it must be put in water’ (Lev 11:32). According to Moses Maimonides, the 12th Century Jewish authority, if an item was too big to immerse completely, half of it was dunked in the water, then it was taken out, turned around, and the other half immersed. However, we need not imagine a large piece of furniture, anymore than we suppose that the paralytic in Mark 2:12 carried away a four-poster bed; Jews ate as they reclined and the ‘couches’ were probably nothing more than rolls of matting laid out.
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Covenanter Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Likewise the Mikvah washings. All to do with an invented righteousness to avoid the fact that they lived with a hopelessly broken Mosaic covenant.
And when John comes with a baptism of repentance, they reject him as having no authority to baptise, & reject the validity of his baptism - even though the people of Israel accepted him & it.
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Is Leviticus 15:11-14 invented righteousness?
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John of Japan Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Secondly--oh wait, my first paragraph makes the rest of your post moot, since you are going from a flawed source on the Greek.:) -
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Martin Marprelate Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
John 4:2. 'Though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples [did].' This is the usual rendering.
I understand that you take this as meaning, 'Jesus Himself did not baptize, except for His disciples.' If the text had 'apostles' rather than 'disciples,' you might possibly be right, but whom else would He possibly baptize except disciples? He wasn't about to baptize the Pharisees! The text as you would have it makes no sense.
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Covenanter Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
And if Jesus did baptise the disciples with water, they had to wait till Pentecost for him to baptise them with the Holy Spirit. Acts 1:21-22 indicates that they were baptised by John. No suggestion of being rebaptised by Jesus.
If Apollos had been rebaptised like the others, surely that would have been recorded along with a statement of the need for ALL those baptised by John & his disciples to be rebaptised.
Acts 18:24 Now a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man andmighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus. 25 This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things of the Lord, though he knew only the baptism of John. -
John of Japan Well-Known MemberSite SupporterIt's a standard Baptist belief. All the Baptists I know baptize with the formula, "Buried with Him in baptism; raised to walk in newness of life."
Rom. 6:4--"Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." -
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11 I indeed baptize you in water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire: Mt 3
8 I baptized you in water; But he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit. Mk 8
33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize in water, he said unto me, Upon whomsoever thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and abiding upon him, the same is he that baptizeth in the Holy Spirit. Jn 1
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2 and he said unto them, Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when ye believed? And they said unto him, Nay, we did not so much as hear whether the Holy Spirit was given.
5 And when they heard this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied. Acts 19
Since there's no mention of 'water' in the context, I'm not convinced that 'water baptism' is what's in view here. -
And Ananias went away, and did enter into the house, and having put upon him his hands, said, 'Saul, brother, the Lord hath sent me -- Jesus who did appear to thee in the way in which thou wast coming -- that thou mayest see again, and mayest be filled with the Holy Spirit.' And immediately there fell from his eyes as it were scales, he saw again also presently, and having risen, was baptized, Acts 9:17,18 YLT
Is the laying on of hands, the healing blindness, physical and spiritual, receiving the Holy Spirit; The baptism? -
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Maybe the baptism of the Holy Spirit is just the receiving of the Holy Spirit, sans water and or the laying on of hands.
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