Element: Do you believe baptism should be performed
only with water?
Formula: Do you believe baptism should be performed
only in the name of the Father & of the Son, & of the Holy Spirit?
Mode: Do you believe baptism should be performed
only by immersion?
Recipient: Do you believe baptism should be performed
only to believers?
And finally, do you believe baptism should be performed
only by an ordained minister?
Leave the word 'only' out of the questions. It is more biblical rather than man-made teaching, adding words to specific Scripture for example.
Yes.
Yes. Those water baptized 'in the Name' of the one true God.
Yes, unless immersion isn't possible in extenuating circumstances, like brother Richard Wurmbrand.
Yes.
No.
And 'debate' to promote division, strife or contention rather than unity of the faith is of the flesh not the Spirit. The Greek word 'eris' is used 9X in the NT & translated debate & debates in the KJV as well as strife, contentions, variance & refers to fleshly endeavors not spiritual ones.
Romans 1:29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, & depravity. They are full of envy, murder, debate, deceit & malice.
2 Cor 12:20 For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be debates, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances...
Gal 5:19-24 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are
these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, debate (variance), emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings & such like.
Of the which I tell you before, as I have also told
you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
meekness, temperance; against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections & lusts.
Acts 17:17-19 So he REASONED (G1256--'dielegeto'--Middle voice from dia and lego; to say thoroughly, i.e. Discuss, reason, converse, address, preach, lecture.) in the synagogue with the Jews & God-fearing Gentiles & in the marketplace with those he met each day.
Some of them were Epicureans & some were Stoics & THEY started DEBATING (G4820 'sunballo'--to literally throw together & thus debate. argue, dispute) with him. People were asking, "What is this know-it-all trying to say?" Some even said, "Paul must be preaching about foreign gods! That's what he means when he talks about Jesus & about the resurrection."
So they took Paul & brought him to the Areopagus, where they asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?
Debate - Our present word debate does not commonly imply evil. It denotes commonly discussion for elucidating truth; or for maintaining a proposition, as the debates in Parliament, etc. But the word in the original meant also contention, strife, altercation, connected with anger & heated zeal;
Romans 13:13;
1 Corinthians 1:11;
1 Corinthians 3:3;
2 Corinthians 12:20;
Galatians 5:20;
Philippians 1:15;
1 Timothy 6:4;
Titus 3:9. This contention & strife would, of course, follow from malice & covetousness, etc.
Perhaps this modern definition of debate is what you meant.
Eph 4:1-4, 11-16 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility & gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, BEING DILIGENT TO MAINTAIN (KEEP) THE UNITY OF THE SPIRIT IN THE BOND OF PEACE.
4There is one body & one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God & Father of all, who is over all & through all & in all.
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds (pastors) & teachers, to EQUIP THE SAINTS for the WORK OF MINISTRY, for building up the body of Christ,
13until we all attain to THE UNITY OF THE FAITH & of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to & fro by the waves & carried about by every WIND of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
15Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into Him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined & held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.