Carlo,

I was an elder in a PCA once. I heard it used as represented  
cleansing like a shower or a rinsing away. A lot of it comes from the  
Didache.

Just draw an invisible line from Kansas, down to Texas, over to  
Northern Florida, and up to North Carolina, and I'll go to any  
baptism in there if they have barbecue. To me the mode of barbecue  
itself is what is important.

KK

On Apr 29, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Carlo Rose wrote:

The other issue for me is if the mode of baptism signifies something  
very important like the death and burial and raising of Christ, well,  
is that important.  Some people say, pouring is just as good.  But  
the water baptism from my understanding is not to represent the  
pouring of the Holy Spirit, say, but the death, burial, and  
resurrection, is that important to the symbol of baptism that it is  
suppose to represent.