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Blood and Baptism.

Blood and Baptism.
From the Church and Home.
In the Christian of November Is,
we find the following from the pen Of
Prof. j. C. Risk, whom we have |
known intimately for the past ten
years. He says:
'The blood of Jesus Christ, His
Son, cleanses US from all SIM" The
life Of David in the battle was of
more value than that of ten thousand
soldiers and the blood of the Son of
God is of more value than that of
Adams race.
But how can the blood Of Christ
take away sin? If sin kills, how does
the bloOd of Christ make alive? HIS
blood is made efficacious in baptism.
''As many as were baptized into
Jesus Christ were baptised into His
DEATH" Baptism is a death, and
represents death. The law requires
that the sinner must die and he dies
in baptism. 1t may be momentary
death, yet it occurs in his baptism.
While he is under the water, he is in
death. Jesus died and was buried,
so the sinner must die and be buried.
No shedding-of blood, no remission
is the law. No baptism, no death to
sin, there can be no remission. God
has decreed that the sinner must die
if it be for only . moment. There is
no death in fact or represented in
sprinkling, and it is truly non essen
tial. It is utterly valueless and o
deception. Good men should turn
away from all perversions of baptism
with adherence.
These are strong words. II the
position be correct, the immersed
alone have pardon of sin. This,
however, is the view Of the society of
which Bro. Risk is a member. Alex
ander Campbell held that "It is not
our faith in Gods promises Of remis-
sion, but our going down into the
water, that obtains remission OF
sins. ."-Millennial Harbinger. DR..
Hopson put the question, interroga-
lively, "Will be damned if 1 am
not baptized?" Certainly. Why not
Whilst we do not doubt the purity oi
our friends heart and motives, yet
we cannot accept his reasoning
1st. Because 1t auholly lacks Scrip.
ture acdrrant. The Office of baptism
is not to represent death. When Pau
told the Romans(c. 6:4) that "We
are buried with Him by baptism into
DEATH he did not say, or leave il
inferable, that "baptism was DEATH
This mode of Interpretation confound.
the "burial' with the "baptism." /
some one should ask Bro. Risk if h
thought it correct to say 1--WE ar,
immersed by an immersion, or we ar,
buried by BURIAL" and put hi
scholarship to the test, like Alexande
Campbell, on the one meaning 0
boptizo, he would maintain his schol
arship, although it ruined his theory
l. 1t must be apparent that to have
burial there must have been q f,reUiou
death. This. Paul says, was accomplish
ed by ''crucifixion." 2. There mus
have been a grave. Paul says the grav
into which our dead old man is hi,
away is''Death'' water! 8. Pau
says the Sexton is baptism-s'burie'
. by baptism. 4. Paul says zoe or
buried. Not that we were once, bu
!, are now. We are covered scit
, that into achich sue are buried. If
2 man is literally buried into the earth
he is covered with earth. If he b
buried, in water, he is covered wit
water. Into what then Is our old ma
+: buried? Paul don't say into esrth, G
water, but into Christ's death. Ii
E the word of God stand though theorie
:. 60 to the moles and bats!
2nd. Because, if it be true, th
/ salvation of the world noao depend
on the action of fallible man. Th
would again be an absolute contr,
diction of the word itself. God alo,
:. can .torgive SINS, is the plain teachin
of the word. Hence, no man is il
! vested with such ability.
4 3rd. Because it represents that Il
: blood Of Christ is alone found in Il
water of baptism. We do not doul
that many receive pardon when the
/ are being baptized, but that Christ
a received alone in baptism, makes Il
word jumble of contradiction.
We regard it as monstrous to NAL
\ such a claim, and yet Mr.. Campbe
n taught that "As God first gave Il
a efficacy Of water to blood, He b,
IL now given the efficacy of bloed
J. to water" Prof. Risk, following b
" leader, A. Campbell, says: "N
IS baptism, no remission :" "Affusit
u is not baptism" Hence, all the u
= immersed are to be damned. It
- admitted, however, that the hear
d of many of the unimmersed are nc
purified by faith, and their lives ,
y repentance. Hence, those who al
=, pure, both in heart and life, are ne
=. ertheless to be damned! How teri
r. BILE! And all because they were n
le immersed.
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