David Padfield and Don Phillips

Debate On The Purpose Of Water Baptism

In 1990 Don Phillips (American Baptist) and David Padfield (Christian) engaged in a public discussion on the purpose of water baptism. The debate was held in Terre Haute, Indiana. The following links will take you to articles and files related to this debate.

Debate On Water Baptism

remission of sinsDownload Charts from the Padfield-Phillips Debate. Over 120 overhead charts used by Padfield in this debate (PDF file size: 251k). You will need Acrobat Reader, available free from Adobe Systems, in order to view the charts.

"For The Remission Of Sins." A few years ago David Padfield wrote to several prominent Greek scholars and posed this question: "Is it grammatically possible that the phrase 'eis aphesin hamartion,' 'for the remission of sins,' as used in Acts 2:38, expresses the force of both verbs, 'repent ye and be baptized each one of you,' even though these verbs differ in both person and number?" This booklet contains photocopies of their responses and explains the phrase "for the remission of sins" in a very detailed manner (PDF File size: 640k).