[Speaking of Mt. 19:14, Mark 10:14, Luke 18:15-16] “Jesus says that little children are are brought by another are little children who come to Him. It may be protested that there is no water, no baptism, in these passages. This is cheerfully acknowledged. We are not talking about baptism; we are talking about the relationship …
Powerlessness Raised Up
“Under the Old Covenant, the children regularly fell into apostasy. But God promises that under the New Covenant, this pattern will change. If we forsake our covenant children, we are returning to the lifestyle seen under the powerless shadows, we could not maintain faithfulness over generations. The Old Covenant had its problems, not because it …
No Abrogation At All
“The Bible teaches that one of the features of the New Covenant was to be the restoration of the covenantal parent/child relationship, not the dissolution of the covenantal parent/child relationship” (To a Thousand Generations, p. 15).
Which Way the Application Goes
“We must not come to the text of Scripture with our modern debates in the forefront of our mind. Our modern debates should be settled by Scripture, but this does not mean they are found in Scripture. The issue for us should be to learn what their debates were. And as the history of the …
Quite a Few Words to Look Up
“Many Christians have come to baptistic conclusions because they simply took a Bible and a concordance, and then looked up every incident of baptism in the New Testament. This is objectionable, not because they studied they pasages concerned with baptism, but because they did not look up all the passages that addressed parents, children, generations, …
Arguments Like Ephraim
“Perhaps at the outset I may be able to reassure the baptist reader by saying there will be no ‘babies of the Philippian jailer’ arguments . . . Arguments from silence not only do not establish the point they seek to establish, they do help establish the reputation of paedobaptists in making desperate and valiant …
Parents May Always Trust
“When it comes to child-rearing, between the Old and New Testaments there is total and complete continuity on the subject of godly parenting. There is no discontinuity. It needs to be emphasized again that there is continuity in the promises of God with regard to parenting. Not surprisingly, this has ramifications for the subject of …
Of Course Not
“It is important for biblical paedobaptists to attack publicly the various errors that have grown up around the practice of infant baptism . . . we need to get to the point where no one would dream of accusing an evangelical paedobaptist of holding to the false and destructive doctrine of baptismal regeneration” (To a …
Where Nominal Christians Come From
“The real origin of nominalism is to be found in all churches that refuse to discipline in terms of their baptism, whatever their practice of baptism may be” (To a Thousand Generations, p. 7).
That Day Approaches
“And because God is good, the day will come when the prayer of the apostle Paul will be answered, and all the saints will come to see the glory in grace — grasping the ungraspable, knowing the unknowable, and marveling at how unworthy wretches can be dressed in a righteousness not their own” (Back to …