Later in history -about three centuries after Christ- the Roman Catholic Church has started sprinkling ill priests that had very short life-prospects. But some of these 'sprinkled priests' didnot die. And in this way the monks have decided to leave biblical baptism by immersion to start sprinkling people instead.
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Should baptism according to the Bible involve sprinkling, pouring, or immersion? Some denominations sprinkle water, others pour water, others immerse. Which mode or action is correct? ... The Action (Mode) of Baptism: Sprinkling, Pouring, or Immersion?
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What Is Baptism (the Sprinkling Hoax) It may well be that there is no Bible ... Then we also have to ask, since sprinkling came from and by man being 200 to 1300 years after the writing of the New Testament, depending on whether you want to start your count with Novation or the Council of Ravenna, how it can be said that...
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What is the proper form of Baptism (sprinkling?, pouring?, immersion?) ... Only when some of the church (going beyond Scriptures) added the idea of Baptizing infants, did they start to use sprinkling. The Bible's standard is the only one that matters, not traditions of man.
www.bibleistrue.com/qna/qna25.htm
Sprinkling is Un-biblical ... C. Today the Roman Catholic baptizes by sprinkling and admits the change: ... Not even John Paul II can make right, an infant baptism by sprinkling, that is wrong according to the Bible! (right)
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But God never suggests that specific amounts of those physical objects must be used - it would start to feel like sorcery if He did! ... Be it as that may, baptism by sprinkling was always the type in the old testament.. In hebrews for instance, the "bptisms" refered to were all old testament rituals and when we go back...
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That is that I do not believe the mode of baptism to be important. This is for a number ... as I said at the start I do not believe the Bible makes clear which mode was practised and I do not believe it to be important. However, I do find the case for sprinkling or pouring far more compelling than the case for immersion.
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Is there a Special Divine Blessing attached to Baptism? What is correct? How should we be baptised? Into which Name? Believers are divided and there rages ... Should Baptism be administered by Sprinkling or by Immersion? ... Secondly, we will prove that baptism should be administered by immersion and not by sprinkling.
www.revelations.org.za/Bap.htm
(Our Church is aware that we have a very unusual approach to this subject!) If no preference is indicated, we generally mention a Pouring Baptism to the individual, but for extremely elderly or ill individuals, we may mention a Sprinkling Baptism.
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