Baptism Trivia Quiz

Answer: With the Holy Ghost and fire

This is mentioned three times, in Matthew 3:11, Mark 1:8, and Luke 3:16.

Answer: The name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost

" . . . baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you" (Matthew 28:19-20).

Answer: False

Refer to Matthew 3:13-17 for Christ's baptism. Jesus was sinless, and therefore had no need of being baptized for the remission of sins. Rather, He was baptized "to fulfill all righteousness." Christ's baptism, which was performed in obedience to God, also confirms His ministry. For when He was baptized, "the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove," and then God announced, "This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased."

Answer: True

He said, in reference to His coming crucifixion, "But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished" (Luke 12:50).

Answer: None of These

All of these denominations will baptize adult converts, though two - the Lutheran and the Roman Catholic - also baptize infants. The Baptists do not baptize infants.

Answer: All of These

None of these churches baptizes infants, and all three practice baptism by immersion. The Churches of Christ maintain that baptism is necessary for salvation, whereas the Baptists regard baptism as a symbol of the fact that the convert has already been saved by faith.

Answer: The Mennonite Brethren

The Mennonite Brethren "practice water baptism by immersion administered by the local church" (Mennonite Brethren Confession of Faith: Article 8). They are willing to "receive into membership those who have been baptized by another mode," but they themselves only baptize by immersion.

The other three churches are willing to baptize by sprinkling, though they do not deny the validity of baptism by immersion.

Answer: Believed with all of his heart

"So here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, If thou believeth with all thine heart, thou mayst. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God" (Acts 8:36-37).

Answer: Household

"And a certain woman named Lydia...heard us. . . And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there." (Acts 16:14-15). The Bible does not specify who her "household" includes, whether husband, siblings, servants, and/or children. Stephanas was also baptized with his household (I Cor. 1:16), as was Crispus (Acts 18:8).

Answer: Once Paul had laid hands on them

"And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, unto John's baptism. Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.

When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them." (Acts 19:1-6). First they had to be baptized in the name of Jesus, but the Holy Ghost came upon them after Paul had laid his hands upon them.

Answer: All of these

"Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life" (Romans 6:3-4).

Answer: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

"Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead?" (I Corinthians 15:29) Scholars have long debated this cryptic verse. Some argue that the early church did indeed perform baptisms on behalf of the dead.

Others argue that what Paul is really discussing here is the mere replacement of deceased converts with new converts.

Answer: Luke 18:42

Luke 18:42 says, "And Jesus said unto him: Receive thy sight, thy faith hath saved thee." Unlike the other three verses mentioned, this one does not in any way link baptism to salvation, so it would not be used to support that particular supposition.

The verse in Peter is most often alluded to for support of this view: "The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ" (I Peter 3:21). Those who consider baptism to be a mere symbol, however, emphasize the parenthetical statement in this verse, arguing that it is not the baptism itself that saves, but the faith behind it. Mark 16:16 says, "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved" and Titus 3:5 says, "...according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration . . ."

Answer: Body

The verse continues, "and have been all made to drink into one Spirit" (I Corinthians 12:13). The body is frequently used as an analogy for the church, the body of Christ.

Answer: Sprinkled

This quote comes from Hebrews 10:22. Sprinkling is mentioned more often in the context of repentance in the Old Testament than in the New. For example, Ezekiel 36:25 says, "I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols."

Answer: False

The Baptists and many other Christians argue that this word can only properly be translated as "to immerse." However, there are others who claim that it can also mean "to wash, to sprinkle, to pour on water, and to tinge or dye with any liquid" (Samuel Miller, "Infant Baptism Scriptural and Reasonable: and Baptism by Sprinkling or Affusion the Most Suitable and Edifying Mode.")

Answer: True

The Greek word, he emphasized, means 'To plunge something entirely into the water, so that the water closes over it.' Nevertheless, the Lutheran Church most commonly baptizes by pouring rather than by immersion. (Source: A Compend of Luther's Theology, p. 167, via "Handbook of Religious Quotations", p. 11 via the website http://www.gospelway.com/salvation/baptism_action.htm)

Answer: False

Baptism is not, in the Lutheran view, something we do; rather it is something that is done to us by God. This is one of the reasons Lutherans permit the baptism of infants.

Answer: False

Dedications are sometimes performed in churches that do not perform infant baptisms. It is a way of publicly declaring that a child will be raised up in the Christian faith, and it is not necessarily associated with baptism.

Answer: False

The Church of Christ (also called the Churches of Christ) does not baptize infants. Members are not concerned about infants being lost, however, because the Church of Christ does not teach the doctrine of Original Sin. Babies or young children who die would not, in this view, be lost.