… Whatever baptizo means in Scripture, its meaning must be related to the Biblical neologisms baptisma and baptismos found there which do not occur in pagan literature. Baptist apologists who give much attention to these original, Biblical terms for Christian baptism are few and far between. Yet these terms are at the heart of the linguistic and theological problems which divide us. The very point of coining new words is to depict new meanings. Though Carson, Conant and other Baptist …
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