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Infant Baptism and the Silence of the New Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

Since the time of the Reformation some Christians have argued that the historic church’s practice of infant baptism is without proper biblical warrant. The most frequently heard refrain from those in this camp is that because the New Testament contains no explicit command to baptize the infant children of believers, the practice is ultimately based upon an “argument from silence.” In Infant...

If anyone should know how to define the word ‘covenant,’ it is O. Palmer Robertson, author of the book The Christ of the Covenants.1 Nevertheless, Robertson writes that trying to define the word ‘covenant’ is “something like asking for a definition of ‘mother.’ ”2 The reason for Robertson’s reticence is that the term ‘covenant’ is an extraordinarily rich one in Scripture, bringing within its scope a variety of ideas and implications, several of which are
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