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Category: Baptism

  • The Word "Baptism" in Gothic

    My baptistic friends (or any of my friends that think that only immersion is baptism) will be glad to know that in the Gothic Bible, one of the words that is translated, rather than transliterated, is the word we transliterate “baptism.” In “The Goths of the Fourth Century,” Heather et al. provide the following item:…

  • Rebuttal to Hubner’s Response to DeYoung

    Jamin Hubner has posted a response to Kevin DeYoung on the topic Baptism and the covenant. Jamin quote KDY as stating: “If circumcision was for Abraham a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith, then we cannot say the cutting away of the flesh was simply an ethnic identity marker or a sign…

  • Was Judas Baptized?

    John 3:22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. John 3:26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come…

  • John Calvin and the Fathers on Baptism

    I’ve been told that John Calvin invented a justification for infant baptism that was new. I’m not fully persuaded that, in its essence, Calvin’s justification was new. My impression is that the main argument is that Calvin was departing from medieval Western tradition that viewed baptism essentially as regenerative by virtue of its operation. However,…

  • Regeneration – Baptism – Circumcision

    In a recent post responding to some comments from R. Scott Clark, Dr. White states: In the same way, once we see that fulfillment of circumcision in the New Covenant is regeneration, not baptism, the consistency of the biblical revelation is seen. (source) I have heard Dr. White make this claim repeatedly, but it seems…

  • Strawbridge vs. White Debate on Baptism – Some Caveats

    Coram Deo at Defending Contending (link) has a post discussing the issue of infant baptism and the new covenant and promoting a debate between Dr. James White and Greg Strawbridge on the topic of infant baptism. He writes: Yet precisely WHAT does Christ mediate to those who are baptized as infants and grow to adulthood,…

  • "Jesus Loves Me" – Critique of Hymn 633

    One thing I really disliked about Pastor Shishko’s cross-examination of Dr. White in their debate on baptism was Pastor Shishko’s suggestion that believers should teach their children to sing Trinity Hymnal #633, which the hymnal indexes, “Yes, Jesus loves me!” First of all, the only religious songs authorized in Scripture are those found in the…

  • The Real Turretin on: Validity of Baptisms by Heretics

    Turrettin, vol. iii. p. 442. “Some heretics,” he says, “corrupt the very substance of baptism, as the ancient Arians, modern Socinians, rejecting the doctrine of the Trinity others, retaining the essentials of the ordinance and the true doctrine of the Trinity, err as to other doctrines, as formerly the Novatians and Donatists, and now the…

  • Modern Views on Circumcision

    This brief article describes a situation that is not a good one (link). The man has two wives and eleven children. It’s not good for men to have more wives than one, and such men are prohibited from serving as elders in the church. This man did two things that most people would consider strange…

  • Baptismal Salvation

    I recently received this peice of fan mail: You’re a sock puppet of Satan. That’s why you baptize babies to send them to hell to burn for all eternity. They grow up duped into thinking they’re already Christians and already saved just because Satan’s minister sprinkled his putrid devil water on them. You’re going to…