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Gregory of Nazianzus said of his good friend Basil in the fourth century AD that they “seemed to be two bodies with a single spirit.” Likewise, Aristotle defined friendship as “one soul inhabiting two bodies.” Without fail, we share the lives of our friends and they ours, for good and for ill.
That’s why Solomon so warns his son, and by extension us, to be wise when...
Scripture consistently promotes a teaching of believer’s baptism – a truth that is recognized even by proponents of infant baptism.
Theologian G.K. Beale, a prolific New Testament scholar holding to infant baptism, writes, “Baptism connotes the believer’s identification with Christ’s death and resurrection: the old self or ‘old man’ (positioned in Adam) was crucifie...
Despite clear facts from Scripture supporting believer’s baptism, our paedobaptist friends will tell us that infant baptism is not found in the logic of the New Testament texts, but in the concept of the new covenant. Therefore, we will now look at the new covenant and how it relates to baptism.
In the New Testament letters, the apostles teach that baptism is a powerful, vivid reminder of who we are in Christ and how we have power to live for Christ’s glory and be more than conquerors through the Lord (Romans 8).
In a previous post, we examined three principles for preaching the thorny book of Ecclesiastes. If you didn’t see those, you can check them out here