The Bible says, repentance from dead works and a faith toward God of the doctrine of
baptisms and of laying on of hands and of resurrection of the dead and of eternal judgment.
You know, baptism is a foundational doctrine.
And the doctrine of baptisms has to do with, number one, the fact that baptism
is by immersion.
That's why it says in Matthew 3 that Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straight way
out of the water.
That's why John was baptizing an anon near to Salem, because there was much water there.
If he would have been sprinkling, he could have just brought a water bottle.
You know, he could have just brought a camel pack.
He could have just brought a small amount of water.
No, he had to go somewhere where there was much water so that he could dunk people
under the water.
That's why the Bible says in Colossians 2 that we're buried with him by baptism.
Well, sprinkling isn't a burial.
No, a burial is when you go down under, okay?
And I'm not talking about Australia, but when you go down under the water, that is burial.
That is real baptism.
That's foundational.
And when you see a church that's baptizing by sprinkling or pouring, you know what that
tells me?
That church doesn't even have the foundation.
How can they build anything of value when they don't even have the foundation to start with?
They will fail immediately, the Bible says.
These things are foundational.
The doctrine of baptisms is a foundation.