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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,...

Here we come to a major fault line. We not only hold to different modes and subjects; characteristically, we operate with different definitions. In this respect Professor Ware’s quotation (p. 41 n. 34) of J. I. Packer’s “definition of baptism” is intriguing: Christian baptism … is a sign from God that signifies inward cleansing and remission of sins, … Spirit-wrought regeneration and new life, … and the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit as God’s seal testifying and guaranteeing that one will be
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