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Assurance and Baptism – Leithart Should Read 1 John
Peter Leithart should read the First Epistle of John. Peter Leithart writes: “Justification by grace through faith cannot be sustained, either in theology or in our experience, without confidence that God works in the sacraments. We cannot get assurance unless we’re convinced that God declares me His beloved child in the water of baptism. Which…
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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:…
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Partisan Baptisms
One troubling concept I hear made from time to time is something to the effect of a person being baptized into “the PCA” or the “OPC” or the “RPCNA” or the like. I have even heard people argue against Roman Catholic baptism on the basis that baptism is into a church, and that because the…
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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…
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"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…
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Centuri0n Grabs Some Low-Hanging Fruit
In a post earlier today, Centuri0n responds to an argument that believers-only baptism is reflective of an anti-sovereigntist mindset (Source). Yeah, Centuri0n, we all know that there are Reformed baptists, and that Reformed baptists don’t baptize believers-only for that reason. On the other hand, the “your mama” part of the critique is dead wrong. You…