#baptism

What are your thoughts concerning trine baptism (the applying of water thrice upon the head)? I’ve heard others making a case for it by saying it’s akin to the mode of baptism and is to be left up to the discretion of the session; that it was the widely accepted general consensus in the early...

Blessed Lord's Day, brothers. I have read John Calvin's Institutes on the sacraments, prompting me to more questions of clarification. 1. Dr. Calvin defines a sacrament as: and further, he says on the sacramental status of the laying on of hands: So, is the laying on of hands a sort-of...

Is this a sacrament / sacrament-like rite? The parallels I have noticed are: - It offers grace (everyone who is bitten shall live) - That grace is acquired through faith (when he looks at it) - It is graciously given from God to his people (Then the Lord said to Moses) The main diffrence I...

I ran across this website, claiming a bunch of reformers held a form of baptismal regeneration that holds that this ordinarily happens to elect infants at baptism. I found it while looking for the source of a quote quoted by "Redeemed Zoomer", a conservative PCUSA lay-person advocating the reform...