Was Christ Immersed?
Crossett argues against the Baptist assumption that Christ's immersion demonstrates the proper mode of baptism, instead proposing that Christ's baptism by John functioned as an ordination to His priestly office. The article examines key Scripture passages to challenge surface-level readings and offers an alternative Reformed understanding of Christ's baptism as fulfilling righteousness and establishing priestly authority.
Brian Crossett Baptists often argue that if we want to know the proper mode of baptism, what better example could we follow than that of Christ Himself? And surely He was immersed and not poured or sprinkled with water … Rather than follow a merely surface reading of a text (and read into it baptist presuppositions), we shall examine the Scriptures, making several points. 1) Jesus went to John the Baptist for baptism when he was aged about 30 (Luke 3:21-23). 2) John forbade Him saying that...