"Our word "baptize" is translated from the original Greek word "baptizo", which means to immerse. "Baptizo" does not mean sprinkle or pour. If our Lord had wanted people to be sprinkled, he would have inspired the New Testament writers to use the Greek word "rhantizo". If our Lord wanted people to be poured He would have inspired New Testament writers to use the Greek word "katacheo".
And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying,
Go and wash in Jordan seven times,
and thy flesh shall come again to thee,
and thou shalt be clean.
Then went he down, and dipped himself
seven times in Jordan,
according to the saying of the man of God:
and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
2 Kings 5:10,14
Buried with him in baptism,
wherein also ye are risen with him
through the faith of the operation of God,
who hath raised him from the dead.
Colossians 2:12
And Jesus, when he was baptized,
went up straightway out of the water:
Matthew 3:16
And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim,
because there was much water there:
and they came, and were baptized.
John 3:23
...., and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan,
confessing their sins.
Mark 1:5
'But we then ask the question, where then did sprinkling or pouring come from? The first recorded case in all of early church history
was that of Novatian in 251 AD, who lay sick on his bed and water was poured on him. Who made this first exception, man or God? ....God has not approved of it. Sprinkling is just as vain as if it had never been done. This man made exception over the centuries became the man made accepted practice until at the Council of Ravenna in 1311 AD, man legalized sprinkling for baptism, but without God's authority." DYS
