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Craig Blomberg on Baptism
By Rick Hogaboam On September 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Baptism, Credo-Baptist Apologies, Theology
Craig Blomberg, professor at Denver Seminary, laments the sad state of baptism in most Evangelical churches today. Here is an extended excerpt. The full article can be linked at the end. HT: Justin Taylor.
But in our age in which tolerance so often seems to trump truth, we need to return to [...]
Baptism and Becoming a Christian
By Rick Hogaboam On August 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Baptism, Credo-Baptist Apologies, Theology
New Testament Scholar, Dr. Robert Stein, has a wonderful journal entry titled, “Baptism and Becoming a Christian in the New Testament”. In it, he discusses how the NT conception of “Salvation” consists of five components: repentance, faith, confession, regeneration, and baptism. He also mentions how “Justification” come through faith and baptism. [...]
One of my contentions with paedobaptism is that a direct analogy is sought with NT baptism and OT circumcision, while generally ignoring the baptism of repentance administered by John the Baptist. If God’s covenant people, bearing circumcision, are told to repent before the reception of the new sign of baptism under John the Baptist, then [...]
George Beasley-Murray, in his volume “Baptism in the New Testament”, has a wonderful chapter on infant baptism, noting the development of the rite and theology of the rite. Beasley-Murray is a credobaptist, and thus responds to many of the errors in paedobaptist thought. In his treatment of the Anglican church and baptism, he notes how [...]
Augustine’s Reflections on His Deferred Baptism
By Rick Hogaboam On February 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Baptism, Credo-Baptist Apologies, Theology
Augustine championed infant baptism, mostly influenced by his anti-pelagian polemics in which he determined baptism as the answer to original sin. It has been noted, however, that Augustine was himself not baptized as an infant. He bemoans that his baptism was withheld, but it is important to note that he does not express displeasure because [...]
4th Century Credo-baptisms
By Rick Hogaboam On February 16, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Baptism, Book Reviews, Credo-Baptist Apologies, Theology
Wright notes a hall of fame lineup of churchmen who were raised in Christian homes and yet not baptized until they were of mature years,
If we move from precept to practice, we encounter that widespread group of later fourth-century churchmen and churchwomen nurtured in Christian families but not baptized until they were of independent years. [...]
One Baptism (of Repentance) for the Remission of Sins?
By Rick Hogaboam On February 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Baptism, Book Reviews, Credo-Baptist Apologies, Theology
Wright notes,
Moreover, Cyril tells us that the creed of the Church of Jerusalem acknowledged ‘one baptism of repentance (μετανοίας) for the remission of sins’ (Catech. 18:22), which rendered the clause more obviously inapplicable to the newborn. The second creed at the end of Epiphanius’ Ancoratus speaks more briefly of ‘one baptism of repentance’.[1]
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Credo-Baptist Witnesses from The Apostolic Fathers
By Rick Hogaboam On February 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Baptism, Book Reviews, Credo-Baptist Apologies, Theology
Wright weighs the testimony in favor of credo-baptism:
The directions for baptism in the Didache envisage responsible participants as its subjects. There is no provision for young children, but nor are they explicitly excluded. If we recall that only one small paragraph betrays the place for infants in the lengthy baptismal order in the Hippolytan [...]
Who Bears the Burden of Proof on Infant Baptism?
By Rick Hogaboam On February 15, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Baptism, Book Reviews, Credo-Baptist Apologies, Theology
Many paedo-baptists would argue that credo-baptists bear the proof in articulating discontiuity in the Covenant administrations as it involves children and signs. Credo-baptists have argued that the burden of proof rests with paedo-baptists since we see no clear inclusion of infants, nor a theology attached to baptism that seems to conclusively include children. Wright suggests [...]
David F. Wright on the Baptism of Young Children
By Rick Hogaboam On February 15, 2011 · 10 Comments · In Baptism, Book Reviews, Credo-Baptist Apologies, Theology
Wright concludes his first chapter, “The Origins of Infant Baptism – Child Believers’ Baptism?”, by stating:
In the year 381 Gregory Nazianzen advised that children should normally be baptized at about the age of three ‘when they can take in something of the mystery, and answer (the questions), and even if they do not yet [...]
The Evolution of Baptism in the First 4 Centuries
By Rick Hogaboam On February 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Baptism, Credo-Baptist Apologies, Theology
I have read Ferguson, who is here quoted by Wright, and concur that infant baptism was first given in emergency, and then became normal practice into the 3rd century as the church essentially adopted a view of baptismal regeneration. As debates about post-baptismal sin arose, baptism was then delayed until one was near death in [...]
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To summarize, the Christian’s circumcision is that union with Christ’s death and resurrection, symbolized by baptism, which is evidenced by outward faith. Verses 13-14 also correlate this view by defining those who [...]
The very thing they most want this passage [1 Cor.7:14] to yield for the “holy” children, namely, the right to baptism, they must deny to the “consecrated” parent who does not believe. Thus their exposition is plunged into sibylic contortions. The holy children are “so far holy that they are in the [...]
Zwingli is no hero to Baptists because he supported the drowning of Felix Manz, however very few are aware of Zwingli’s candid statements regarding the baptism of infants. Granted this was early Zwingli, for he solidified himself as a strong proponent of infant baptism. Historians are mixed about the change in his convictions. [...]
How are we to assess the intertextual relationship between the covenants in relation to baptism and circumcision? One key for me is that the Abrahamic covenant, which entitled physical seed to the sign of circumcision, is fulfilled in the seed that is Christ, who is the true circumcised seed of Abraham.
The [...]
Credo-Baptist Apologies #1 “Who is the ‘church’ according to Luke?”
Acts 2:41 (ESV) — 41 So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
Luke tells us that about 3000 folks reponded to Peter’s message and were baptized. This happens to be a company of men, [...]
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