The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Baptism why the disagreement concerning mode?

Pilgrim said:

<span style="background-color:#FFFF00">No, there is no objection to Christ's baptism having a relationship to His being consecrated into the priesthood.</span> It was necessary that He fulfill all righteousness. That is surely taught in Scripture.

6 That he might fulfill all righteousness : not only moral, but the figurative, ceremonial and typical : some think that the ceremony, to which our Saviour looked at in these words, was the washing of the priests in water, when they entered into their function. "and Aaron, and his sons thou shalt bring to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water," Exod. 29:4 Lev. 8:6 <span style="background-color:#FFFF00">And surely this was the main reason of Christ's being baptized, that by this baptism he might be installed into his ministerial office.</span> <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/BigThumbUp.gif" alt="" />