The 1st century and Gnosticism. In the first 100 years of the church, the method of baptism was straightforward. Jesus Christ had been baptized by John the Baptist in the Jordan River. Therefore, immersion in flowing water was generally accepted.
Who was the first to be baptized?
This gospel, today generally believed by scholars to be the first and to have been used as a basis for Matthew and Luke, begins with Jesus' baptism by John, who preached a baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins. John says of Jesus that he will baptize not with water but with the Holy Spirit.
When was the first time baptism was mentioned in the Bible?
30 AD
Where did John get the idea of baptism?
According to the non-canonical Gospel of the Nazarenes, the idea of being baptized by John came from the mother and brothers of Jesus, and Jesus himself, originally opposed, reluctantly accepted it.
When did Christians start baptizing?
Although the conclusion has repeatedly been drawn from the book of Acts that a baptism in Christ's name was current at some places during the 1st century, by the 2nd century the irreducible minimum for a valid baptism appears to have been the use of water and the invocation of the Trinity.