Receiving the antitype before the type
Most Baptists accuse believers in covenant baptism of confusing type with antitype. Actually, the boot is on the other foot in the special case of Carson who argues:
“Sins are washed away by faith in the blood of Christ, but they are symbolically washed away in baptism. Just as we become partakers in the death of Christ the moment we believe; in baptism, this participation is exhibited by a symbol.” 1
There …
Posts Tagged Believer’s Baptism
Clifford’s New Reformation
Dec 11
Sir: Dr Allan Clifford (Issue 7780) wants a New Reformation, built on his own mixture of Amyraldism, legal, fictive justification and works-righteousness, arguing that the old Biblical Reformation was wrong. I am suspicious of Clifford’s lip-rejection of Rome and denounce his false Protestantism. Clifford’s atonement is not the Biblical-Reformed doctrine on which our reconciliation, …
… baptising the first Hindoo, viz. Krishna, and my son Felix.” In many ways, however, Krishna’s baptism was a matter for sorrow. Thomas’ joy and praise at being instrumental in converting the first Bengalis made him so elated that he lost his mind, became raving mad, and had to be kept behind locked doors during the baptism service. Mrs Carey was also declared too insane to witness the baptism of her son.
Hitherto, missionaries had maintained the caste system, even sharing communion …
My reason for publishing this account of William Carey and his Indian mission on my website.
On 18-21 February, 2010 a conference will be held at Muscle Shoals, Alabama under the theme ‘The Quagmire of Hyper-Calvinism’ . The key speaker will be Dr. Michael Haykin who will lecture on Andrew Fuller as a missionary pioneer. The myth that Andrew Fuller pioneered a missionary movement is …
Queen Elizabeth II’s Role in the Church of England
Dear Sir,
Archbishop Rowan warns against self-deception regarding the supreme government of the Church of England, seemingly unaware himself that there are no ecclesiastical, political or constitutional grounds for assuming Elizabeth II to be that church’s Supreme Governor.
At the Elizabethan Settlement, Cox, …
Dear Brother: What is the difference between Gill’s ‘free declaration of peace and pardon, righteousness, life and salvation to poor sinners’ and the ‘free offer’ and ‘duty faith’ of those who deny outright that Gill appealed to all men everywhere to repent and believe the gospel? The difference is that Gill keeps to the gospel as fulfilling what the law could not do, …
Like John Harding in his candid review of Iain Murray’s new book on Wesley, I was alarmed at the author’s exodus from Reformed doctrines. Could he not praise Wesley objectively for the good he did without having to side with him in his errors? Murray has lost his balance. Formerly he was pro Whitefield and contra Wesley, now he is pro Wesley and Whitefield is forgotten. Forgotten, too, are …
… those Christians who insisted on a sacramental understanding of the amount of water necessary for baptism by calling them ‘submergers’ or ‘drowners’. Oecolampadius of Basle was the first of the Swiss Reformers to use the term and Zwingli took it over from him. Oecolampadius used the word in the derogatory sense of ‘drowners’ whereas Zwingli appears to have used it to mean Counter-baptisers or Anti-baptisers as in his 1527 work Widerlegung der Ränke der Täuferzerzerstörer …
Prepositions and Voices
Aug 21
… Please permit me to express:
Some Thoughts on the Use of Prepositions and Voices Regarding Baptism
A. Baptism with a view to
A factor which often leads to misunderstandings regarding the nature and purpose of baptism is that the preposition ‘eis’ which carries the basic meaning ‘with a view to’ is translated by four different English prepositions. Thus Romans 6:3 is rendered, “Know ye not, that so many of us were baptised INTO Jesus Christ were baptised into …
