A Dry Baptism
The more Bible studies you are in, the more weird ideas you hear. Recently, I was exposed to the concept of “dry baptism.” That was the gentleman’s remark relative to Romans 6. He sat in my office, not intending to study nor to defend what he believed. He just wanted to tell me what he believed.
It is a strange behavior to make up your own religion. “Dry baptism” is just that. It is an effort to get around the plain meaning of the text.
John’s baptism was not dry. It was in water (Matt. 3:11). The new birth is not dry. It involves water (John 3:5). Aside from the very unique experience of baptism in the Holy Spirit, Jesus did not baptize dryly. He used water (John 3:22-23).
The Ethiopian nobleman did not experience a dry baptism. His involved water (Acts 8:36, 38-39). Cornelius’s baptism for forgiveness was not a dry baptism. It involved water (Acts 10:47).
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The baptism by which we are sanctified and cleansed is not a dry baptism. It involves water (Ephesians 5:26). The baptism that accompanies drawing near to God in full assurance of faith and hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience is not a dry baptism. It involves water (Hebrews 10:22). The baptism that “now” saves us is not a dry baptism. It involves water (1 Peter 3:20-21).
If one wishes to call “Holy Spirit” baptism dry, then so be it. But there is now only one baptism (Ephesians 4:5) and based on the passages mentioned above, their context, and various other passages, Holy Spirit baptism is not that baptism!
The baptism that saves is baptism (“immersion”) in water for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38).
–Paul Holland
