Apr
25
2017
Look To Your Baptism?
Bill Smith spells out the reasons behind the exhortation for struggling Christians to find comfort and strength in their paedobaptism. And I respond.
Feb
19
2017
Why I Don’t Go Full-Wilsonian
“I want to be like Doug Wilson when I grow up. My aim is to go full-Wilson in life. But to get there I must not go all-in Wilsonian…”
Aug
8
2016
Paedobaptism Is Identity Theft
Christ’s Claim Upon Us, Or Our Claim Upon Him?
I am not worthy to untie the shoelaces of my theological betters, but it is my duty to point out to them when they have tied them together.
Apr
20
2016
The Myth of Covenant Membership
Reformed theology is the best school in which to learn about covenant theology, yet it is also the worst place to learn about New Covenant theology. Why is this so?
Mar
17
2016
Christendom’s Great Unwashed
“The telos of baptism is not faith but resurrection.” Bull vs. Leithart again, this time a response to The Ambivalence of Baptismal Theology.
Modern individualism has resulted in a dislocated society, but ancient or medieval corporatism is not the solution to it. The Bible deals with people as individuals and as groups, so neither “ism” is a solution to the other. An understanding of the one and the many based on biblical theology reveals both “isms” to be unnecessary enemies. So then, what accounts for the fundamental difference in baptismal theologies? The answer is that history is chiastic. Circumcision was a corporate sign whose telos was the personal faith of each Jew, making him or her a “Jew indeed.” Baptism is the opposite. It begins with the believer as a “Jew indeed,” the individual with the circumcised heart, and gathers them into a prophetic body. The telos of circumcision was faith, conversion. The telos of baptism is not faith but resurrection.
Jan
29
2016
Baptism: God’s Work and Ours
The difference between separation and preparation…
In a post on Kuyperian Commentary entitled Baptism Is God’s Work, my friend Steve Jeffery writes:
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Dec
4
2015
Sealed For Witness: Not Passivity But Submission
Paedobaptism’s Utter Failure to be Objective
My online acquaintance Alastair Roberts has written a piece on the “passivity” of the baptizand. I agree wholeheartedly with much of what he says. But like all paedobaptists, he sees only what supports his errant paradigm, and fails to comprehend the other half of the story.
Nov
21
2015
Baptism and Education – 2
Peter Leithart believes that baptism is the ground for Christian education. I agree with him. But when it comes to whose baptism, I think it can be demonstrated that he departs from the biblical pattern.
Nov
7
2015
Covenant Renewal Worship vs. Paedosacraments
Ignorance of the Bible’s very consistent architecture has led to the assembly of many well-meaning but errant doctrinal constructs over the centuries. With reference to it, however, the conflicts are made plain. Our own towers to heaven, however historic they might be, and however cherished, must be torn down.
Oct
3
2015
Beating Around the Burning Bush
The Blindness of Paedosacramentalism
Leithart’s paper is not a New Covenant growth from glory to glory, but an Old Covenant journey from dust to dust.
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