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On the first Lord's day in May, 1901 at 2:p.m.
A good-sized crowd had gathered in the court house in Arapahoe, O.T. to hear a debate between bro. J.B. Nelson and a former Methodist preacher. The subject: Mode of baptism.
Mr. Paul affirmed: "Resolved, that immersion is not the only mode of Christian baptism taught by the holy scriptures." Each spoke 1 1⁄2 hours. Mr. Paul discussed the identity of the covenants, infant membership, and the baptism of John the Baptist. He then admitted that the first Christian baptism occurred on Pentecost.
Nelson showed wherein Mr. Paul had misapplied or drawn wrong conclusions from each proof text that he had used. He then gave the correct application of them, and kept prominently before the people the fact that according to his opponent's own admission as to the time of the first Christian baptism, all that he had said about Jewish washings and the baptism of John could have nothing to do with the question. The debate was the result of a meeting held there by bro. Nelson.
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J. B. Nelson vs G. W. Paul (Methodist)
May 30, 1901
Arapahae, Oklahoma Territory
(By Frank Young)
May 30, 1901
Arapahae, Oklahoma Territory
(By Frank Young)
On the first Lord's day in May, 1901 at 2:p.m.
A good-sized crowd had gathered in the court house in Arapahoe, O.T. to hear a debate between bro. J.B. Nelson and a former Methodist preacher. The subject: Mode of baptism.
Mr. Paul affirmed: "Resolved, that immersion is not the only mode of Christian baptism taught by the holy scriptures." Each spoke 1 1⁄2 hours. Mr. Paul discussed the identity of the covenants, infant membership, and the baptism of John the Baptist. He then admitted that the first Christian baptism occurred on Pentecost.
Nelson showed wherein Mr. Paul had misapplied or drawn wrong conclusions from each proof text that he had used. He then gave the correct application of them, and kept prominently before the people the fact that according to his opponent's own admission as to the time of the first Christian baptism, all that he had said about Jewish washings and the baptism of John could have nothing to do with the question. The debate was the result of a meeting held there by bro. Nelson.
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