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The Christian church confesses “one baptism.” But the church’s answers to how, whom and when to baptize, and even what it means or does, are famously varied. This book provides a forum for thoughtful proponents of three principal evangelical views to state their case, respond to the others, and then provide a summary response and statement. Sinclair Ferguson sets out the case for infant baptism,...

cannot align with infant baptism. These subjects of baptism, rather, are fully aware of the state of their souls and hence follow John’s command to prepare for the Messiah’s coming (Mk 1:8). The Matthean Great Commission text, likewise, commands followers of Christ to “make disciples” (aorist imperative, mathēteusate) through the dual means of “baptizing” them and “teaching” them (both present participles) all that Christ has commanded them. This, likewise, seems to indicate that those baptized are
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