The Debate on Baptism that Wasn’t
In the preface to the volume The Glory of a True Church by Benjamin Keach, William Cathcart notes an incident that I …
Baptism by Immersion and Justification by Resurrection
John Gill on “remission of sins” from Acts 2:38, for the remission of sins; not that forgiveness of sin could be procured …
Did Infants Speak in Tongues?
Joachim Jeremias (Infant Baptism in the First Four Centuries) argues that household baptisms included infants because “entire” and “all” in reference to …
Anglican Revisions on Baptism – Believer’s Baptism as the Preferred Archetype
Beasley-Murray notes in his excellent volume on baptism (cited below) how the Anglican Church revised their liturgy and tone on baptism after …
John Gill on Jesus’ Baptism (Luke 12:50) and the Symbolism of Baptism by Immersion
Luke 12:50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with,…. Not water baptism, for he had been baptized with that already; …
Craig Blomberg on Baptism
Craig Blomberg, professor at Denver Seminary, laments the sad state of baptism in most Evangelical churches today. Here is an extended excerpt. …
Baptism and Becoming a Christian
New Testament Scholar, Dr. Robert Stein, has a wonderful journal entry titled, “Baptism and Becoming a Christian in the New Testament”. In …
John Calvin, the Credo-Baptist (well, sort of)
One of my contentions with paedobaptism is that a direct analogy is sought with NT baptism and OT circumcision, while generally ignoring …
Anglicans and Credobaptism as the Normative and Archetypal Rite of Initiation
George Beasley-Murray, in his volume “Baptism in the New Testament”, has a wonderful chapter on infant baptism, noting the development of the …
Augustine’s Reflections on His Deferred Baptism
Augustine championed infant baptism, mostly influenced by his anti-pelagian polemics in which he determined baptism as the answer to original sin. It …
4th Century Credo-baptisms
Wright notes a hall of fame lineup of churchmen who were raised in Christian homes and yet not baptized until they were of …
One Baptism (of Repentance) for the Remission of Sins?
Wright notes, Moreover, Cyril tells us that the creed of the Church of Jerusalem acknowledged ‘one baptism of repentance (μετανοίας) for the …
Credo-Baptist Witnesses from The Apostolic Fathers
Wright weighs the testimony in favor of credo-baptism: The directions for baptism in the Didache envisage responsible participants as its subjects. There …
Who Bears the Burden of Proof on Infant Baptism?
Many paedo-baptists would argue that credo-baptists bear the proof in articulating discontiuity in the Covenant administrations as it involves children and signs. …
David F. Wright on the Baptism of Young Children
Wright concludes his first chapter, “The Origins of Infant Baptism – Child Believers’ Baptism?”, by stating: In the year 381 Gregory Nazianzen …
The Evolution of Baptism in the First 4 Centuries
I have read Ferguson, who is here quoted by Wright, and concur that infant baptism was first given in emergency, and then …
Credo-Baptist Apologies: Fred Malone on Col. 2:11-12 and the Relationship of Circumcision and Baptism
You can access the full pamphlet here. You can purchase the little book here. To summarize, the Christian’s circumcision is that union …
Credo-Baptist Apologies: Paul Jewett on 1 Cor. 7:14
The very thing they most want this passage [1 Cor.7:14] to yield for the “holy” children, namely, the right to baptism, they …
Credo-Baptist Apologies: Ulrich Zwingli’s Frank Admission
Zwingli is no hero to Baptists because he supported the drowning of Felix Manz, however very few are aware of Zwingli’s candid statements …
Credo-Baptist Apologies: “Jesus Ends the Physical Abrahamic Genealogy”
How are we to assess the intertextual relationship between the covenants in relation to baptism and circumcision? One key for me is …
Credo-Baptist Apologies: “Who is the ‘church’ according to Luke’s narrative?”
Credo-Baptist Apologies #1 “Who is the ‘church’ according to Luke?” Acts 2:41 (ESV) — 41 So those who received his word were …