biblelighthouse
Puritan Board Junior
All my paedobaptistic buddies, please give me a hand:
I am writing a paper on baptism, and am looking for some input. I already have some ideas, but would like to add a little more exegetical force to my arguments.
What do you believe regarding John's baptism?
1) Did he baptize infants? If so, why do you think so? If not, then how does John's baptism fit into the grand baptismal scheme?
2) Was John's baptism the same as Christ's baptism? Acts 19 seems to mitigate against this. Thus, does it even matter whether John baptized infants? Or, if those baptized into Christ didn't have to be re-baptized, then how do you explain Acts 19?
Please don't think that I'm completely ignorant of the arguments for/against my questions above. I just want to hear some strong paedobaptistic arguments, regardless of what corner they are from. I want to consider various arguments.
Also, I would greatly appreciate any resources you can suggest for this particular topic. Online resources would be great. Other resources would be very good too.
Thank you!
By the way, I'm sure some credos will want to debate some of the arguments presented on this thread. Excellent! I love debate! Please just open up another thread to do it. I'm using this particular thread for research purposes, and I don't want it to get bogged down in debate.
Again, thank you!
[Edited on 9-9-2005 by biblelighthouse]
I am writing a paper on baptism, and am looking for some input. I already have some ideas, but would like to add a little more exegetical force to my arguments.
What do you believe regarding John's baptism?
1) Did he baptize infants? If so, why do you think so? If not, then how does John's baptism fit into the grand baptismal scheme?
2) Was John's baptism the same as Christ's baptism? Acts 19 seems to mitigate against this. Thus, does it even matter whether John baptized infants? Or, if those baptized into Christ didn't have to be re-baptized, then how do you explain Acts 19?
Please don't think that I'm completely ignorant of the arguments for/against my questions above. I just want to hear some strong paedobaptistic arguments, regardless of what corner they are from. I want to consider various arguments.
Also, I would greatly appreciate any resources you can suggest for this particular topic. Online resources would be great. Other resources would be very good too.
Thank you!
By the way, I'm sure some credos will want to debate some of the arguments presented on this thread. Excellent! I love debate! Please just open up another thread to do it. I'm using this particular thread for research purposes, and I don't want it to get bogged down in debate.
Again, thank you!
[Edited on 9-9-2005 by biblelighthouse]