Everything in life is totally free. We can never say that our immersion was based on a full grasp of its value. Thomas and Alexander Campbell are slandered as teaching baptismal regeneration as a means to do violence to people who live these two hundred years later.
Faith only has meaning when faith has an object .
Luther stresses the relationship of water and the Word. Alexander and Thomas Campbell Retaught the 1500 year historical view of the importance of immersion in water. All Old Testament events are prophetic types of some spiritual need in mankind. None of these events see people saved before they obey God's command upon which their faith rests.