“Since baptism and circumcision signify the same spiritual reality, as Paul insists in Colossians 2:11-12, and since the children of Old Testament believers were always included in the covenant community and bore the circumcision-sign of that inclusion, it follows that the children of New Testament believers be received as members in the covenant community, the […]
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“Specifically, baptism is a sign and seal of the benefit of forgiveness (Acts 2:38; 22:16) and of regeneration (Titus 3:5), a being incorporated into the fellowship with Christ and His Church (Rom. 6:4). Therefore baptism is ministered not only to such adults as have been won for Christ through the work of missions, but to
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“This argument against paedobaptism says that just as we no longer sacrifice animals (or use musical instruments, or use choirs, etc.), in the same way, in the absence of clear New Testament warrant, we can no longer initiate children into the covenant community. On the surface, this is a compelling argument since it appeals to
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“I was baptized in the Reformed Episcopal church. I grew up in Reformed and Presbyterian churches. My father diligently taught my sister and I the distinctives of a Reformed covenant theology from our earliest days. He repeatedly reminded us that God had promised to be a covenant God to us and to our descendants after
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“I sometimes wonder if only a minority of Christians give much thought to the ongoing significance of their baptism. Baptism is essentially a naming ceremony…We are baptized into the Name! Again we should insist that we are not changed within by baptism. But at the same time baptism summons us to live the whole of
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