A Biblical Theology of Baptism
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 31st, 2009
The priest baptism connection is vastly different in Roman and Protestant theology. In the Roman church, the priest performs the baptism. However, in the Protestant church, baptism (duly performed by a proper minister of the gospel) creates or ordains a priest!
This fulfills the law of Exodus 29:4, Jesus’ baptism performed by John [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 30th, 2009
The Baptist catechism is instructive on properly understanding baptism. A lot of infant Baptists disparage all Baptists as being anti-sacramentalists. (By a sacrament, I mean a mysterious working of God’s sanctifying grace as a sign and seal of the covenant of grace. I do not mean that salvation is conferred, nor that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 30th, 2009
For the Roman church, baptism is a saving grace. In the Reformed tradition, baptism confers grace in sanctification.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 28th, 2009
Apparently, atheists—those people who have to invoke God’s name in order to nullify it—are doing the same thing with baptism. There is a new anti-sacrament called “de-baptism,’ where in a mock ceremony, a robed anti-priest takes up a hair dryer to the victim of past religious mind control and begins blowing away the waters [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 21st, 2009
BaptizedinWater.org is dedicated to informing Christians of all persuasions how it is that baptism in sign and sacramental form in the OT must play a foundational role in developing and shaping our NT theology of baptism.
Christians have been debating baptism for centuries. Should we baptize only professing believers or also the infants of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 21st, 2009
Many people think that Jesus underwent John’s baptism for our sake, to identify himself with us. James Dale in his massive book on baptism observes, “The baptism of Christ was not a ‘Johannic baptism… it is one thing to be baptized by John and quite another to receive the ‘baptism’ of John.” [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 21st, 2009
What is the origin of Christian baptism?
We Christians undergo baptism at some point in our lives. But did you know that we are not alone? You can find baptism especially in Judaism, but also in ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece, Babylon, Persia, India, and even across the Pacific Ocean. An Ancient Aztec Prayer [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 18th, 2009
Baptism Confession in the Reformed confessions…
I want to talk about three Reformed Confessions in this post. The Belgic Confession (Art. 34 – The Sacrament of Baptism) says, “The Son of God… is our Red Sea, through which we must pass to escape the tyranny of [the devil]. . . and to enter the spiritual [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 17th, 2009
What does the Bible teach concerning baptism and salvation?
Is baptism a means of salvation? On the one hand, baptism itself does not save. Christ alone saves. There is a simple way to demonstrate this.
Was the priest “saved” the day he was washed with water and began his ministry (Ex 29:4)? Let’s ask Hophni and Phinehas [...]
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