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Debate at Jasper, Ala. Mr. Dodd preaches at Eldridge, Ala., where the Baptists have an academy. He promises me a debate there also in the Baptist school building.
Dodd has usual line of Baptist thinking. No new material presented. Had made a few errors that a good Baptist debater should have avoided, but he presented the Baptist side about as well as any of them can do. One blunder that hurt him was in connection with I Pet. 3:21. I introduced this passage, and he replied that "baptism is in answer to a good conscience," and contended that one could not answer a letter before he received it. From this he argued that one had to have a good conscience before God before baptism. Then I read from the American Revised Version, "the interrogation of a good conscience," and from other versions which give it, "the seeking of a good conscience." He belittled the American Revised Version and called it a "Catholic version." This needed but little reply. I showed that the King James Version was given us by the Church of England, and is, in substance, therefore, a Catholic version; while the Revised was translated by the best scholars of all the denominations, and is really a protestant version. I also called attention to the fact that Dr. Hackett was one of the number that represented the Baptists on that committee. This blunder hurt him with his own people.
I diagramed Mk. 16:16 and Acts 2:38 on the board and kept them before the audience in every speech. I should that baptism I stied to both faith and repentance, in these two places by the highest authority. He made sport of my diagram, but I could never get him to say that it was incorrect.
I have received many favorable comments on the debate. There were no hard feelings on anyone present. I really believe the town here will think ore highly of debates as a result of this one.
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L. R. Wilson vs B. G. Dodd (Baptist)
March 15, 1928
Jasper, Alabama
(By L. R. Wilson)
March 15, 1928
Jasper, Alabama
(By L. R. Wilson)
Debate at Jasper, Ala. Mr. Dodd preaches at Eldridge, Ala., where the Baptists have an academy. He promises me a debate there also in the Baptist school building.
Dodd has usual line of Baptist thinking. No new material presented. Had made a few errors that a good Baptist debater should have avoided, but he presented the Baptist side about as well as any of them can do. One blunder that hurt him was in connection with I Pet. 3:21. I introduced this passage, and he replied that "baptism is in answer to a good conscience," and contended that one could not answer a letter before he received it. From this he argued that one had to have a good conscience before God before baptism. Then I read from the American Revised Version, "the interrogation of a good conscience," and from other versions which give it, "the seeking of a good conscience." He belittled the American Revised Version and called it a "Catholic version." This needed but little reply. I showed that the King James Version was given us by the Church of England, and is, in substance, therefore, a Catholic version; while the Revised was translated by the best scholars of all the denominations, and is really a protestant version. I also called attention to the fact that Dr. Hackett was one of the number that represented the Baptists on that committee. This blunder hurt him with his own people.
I diagramed Mk. 16:16 and Acts 2:38 on the board and kept them before the audience in every speech. I should that baptism I stied to both faith and repentance, in these two places by the highest authority. He made sport of my diagram, but I could never get him to say that it was incorrect.
I have received many favorable comments on the debate. There were no hard feelings on anyone present. I really believe the town here will think ore highly of debates as a result of this one.
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