baptism

A credobaptist friend of mine posed these questions and I want to know how to correctly answer them. He tends to be a "chapter and verse" type of...

I've noticed in some other discussions dealing with the relationship between the Covenants, specifically regarding the validity of baptizing...

Hey all, I’m new to Puritan Board. I have been recently convinced about Westminster covenant theology and that includes infant/child baptism. My...

Hi everyone, For those who have read Witsius's On the Efficacy and Utility of Baptism in the Case of Elect Infants Whose Parents Are Under the...

I was listening to a Reformed Forum podcast that stated Credobaptism (meaning the view that believers only should be baptized) originated in the...

my wife is a baptist and I am Presbyterian. She recently asked me what form of baptism is supported in the first centuries of the church.

This question relates to one dealt with back in June 2015, but with a slightly different slant (the original post was: "Should unbelieving spouses...

I am a former Baptist turned paedobaptist. My wife is a Baptist and she and I are in an ongoing discussion about whether to baptize our children....

Hello all, I was hoping for some continued assistance. I'm still really struggling with the idea of paedobaptism... I've been studying Covenant...

I am a Reformed Baptist who is close to converting to Reformed Paedobaptism/Presbyterianism. I am working through the implications of paedobaptist...

This is my first post. I am on something of a theological journey right now. I have always been a Reformed Baptist from the time I was saved,...

Good evening, I have a question for the forum: Do Reformed Presbyterians consider the baptism of those who convert from the Roman Catholic...

Hi, everyone. I have been searching this forum and Google for some critiques of Pascal Denault's The Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant...

A bit of background: Credobaptist church with no current elders other than Senior Pastor. The church teaches that baptism is defined as...

I’m a young guy (23), newly married (three months), and expecting our first child October 30th. I just recently moved and have had trouble...

The fact that baptismal regeneration was the long held belief since the early church, bothers me. Should it? How did the people get that so wrong...

In Ursinus' commentary on the Heidelberg catechism in regards to Question 71 he mentions an abuse of baptism in a way involving cattle. I can't...

Came across my desk this afternoon: "(1) What is baptism? Both Donatists and Anabaptists argued that they were not “rebaptizing” at all, since...

This is a short treatise on the household principal, apart of a larger work for class. Just throwing it out there to see what kind of feedback I...

This post is in response to material on the Ariel Ministries website concerning the church not starting until after Acts 2. I come from a Reformed...

I have a scenario on which I would like to get your wisdom. I am a PCA pastor and have been contacted by someone I know who is a believer and...

Discussion has come up recently at my church about the appropriate time to baptize a child who has made a profession of faith. The parents seem...

I was surprised to find in one of the polls on this board that so many people had gone from being credobaptists to paedobaptists. So my question...

In some 19th Century paedobaptist polemical works, I've recently seen the terms oikia and oikos distinguished. Oikos is said to mean family and...

What are some good resources on the meaning of baptism in Romans 6:3-4? I am looking for resources that state and explain the arguments in...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChxhbTM-wfU

19And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? 20And he confessed, and denied...

If a non-believer is part of the household, where the head is a believer (confessing Christian), then at what age or reason (referring to the...

I really appreciate Dr. Fesko's summary comment of baptism in the Patristic Age in his "Word, Water, and Spirit: A Reformed Perspective on...