Comments on: The Acid Test http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2009/09/25/the-acid-test/ Theology you can eat and drink Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:01:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Mike Bull http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2009/09/25/the-acid-test/comment-page-1/#comment-1398 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:54:09 +0000 http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/?p=3074#comment-1398 Hi Kelby

Sorry I wasn’t clear. I think believing children should be baptized, but not infants.

Baptizing babies is not the kind of witness we see in the New Testament. Baptism symbolically puts us into the “government” of the New Covenant church. Those other articles I link to explain this fully.

I don’t believe the water is magical. But I do believe God honours the obedience with more grace, as He does at the Lord’s supper. There is a “physical” effect.

The Covenant sign reflects the nature of the NC church as opposed to the nature of Israel. It is about bravely testifying, professing, because we are filled with the Spirit.

]]> By: Kelby Carlson http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2009/09/25/the-acid-test/comment-page-1/#comment-1396 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:49:00 +0000 http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/?p=3074#comment-1396 I am really kind of baffled as to how you can say “baptism is never involuntary” and then go right around and claim babies should be baptized. Do I think infant baptism is bad? No I don’t, but I also don’t think the water “does anything” to the baby. it is a covenant sign of witness; it is a *sign* which symbolizes and reflects something that a baby simply does not understand.

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