Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 9004. Infant baptism is practised by the majority of professing Christians worldwide, and any Baptist writing about it should begin by admitting that he is in a minority and that the people he disagrees with include many he expects to meet in glory. This is not a question about who is a Christian. It…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 9003. The question of who should be baptised has divided sincere Christians for centuries, and it is not settled by asserting a tradition loudly. It is settled, if it can be settled at all, by looking at what the New Testament actually does and why it says baptism means what it means. My answer…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4191. Ask most people what the Holy Spirit has to do with believer’s baptism and they will picture the water and stop there, as though the Spirit were a spectator at the side of the pool. That gets it exactly backwards. The water is the picture; the Spirit is the reality the picture points…