Thomas Williams

“ If religious people were not wedded to hoary tradition and unscriptural practices, the texts that speak of baptism as a burial and a birth would be sufficient to decide the meaning the inspired writers attached to the word. If it were seen that, in stead of going to heaven or hell at death we go to the grave, and that resurrection is necessary to a future life, and that baptism is a symbol of death, burial and resurrection, the idea of sprinkling would be seen in it’s real absurdity and immersion in it’s true and beautiful significance. ”

“ His rising again the third day, and their emerging from the water was an emblem of the resurrection of the body, and in them of a total change of life."
Now, dear reader, you will see that it is not possible for us to enter the only name given whereby we can be saved in any way except by baptism. Baptism only will introduce a believer into the one name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Christ, having over come sin and gained the victory over death and the grave, became the manifestation of the Father by the Spirit, and therefore the fullness of the Godhead bodily. ”

“ They were confined to Abraham’s seed, which Paul says is Christ and all who form part of His body. We are not the seed by nature. How may we become such? Note the answer: "For ye are all the children of God y faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on, Christ." * * * And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise (Gal. 3:26, 27, 29) . ”