[soundofgrace] Re: [soundofgrace] Baptism Celebration

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From: john-thomas richards <jtrspam@...>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:52:06 -0400
Josh Wood wrote:
> Isn't the word immersion a bit off?  Isn't it "sub"-mersion that we 
> Baptists hold to.  All baptizers, paedo or credo, immerse...just a 
> passing thought.

Eisogesis!  Eisogesis!  How dare you define a word free from the context!

According to my two friends, Merriam and Webster, immerse means:

1: to plunge into something that surrounds or covers; especially : to 
plunge or dip into a fluid
2: engross, absorb <completely immersed in his work>
3: to baptize by immersion
--
john-thomas