Catechism Walks

These past (final) three days of Christmas vacation (for me from work, and the boys from school), I’ve walked up and down the mountain near our house with #1 — an enterprise which takes about an hour and a half.  The first time, we just chatted about erosion and why the sun is in the [...]

Hoagies & Stogies: Baptiterians

It was a great event, well-attended and well-enjoyed, despite intermittent rain.  Thanks especially to the speakers (Brian Tallman and Mike Brown), for putting up with damp heads and soggy papers.
Anyways, the .mp3 are available, hosted by The Onomist:

Part 1: Three opening statements
Part 2: Rebuttals, closing statements, a “pious statement” by Dr. Tom, and a (rain-shortened) [...]

…and one of them was Ishmael

The Heidelblog recently considered the question of infant baptism. Clark asks the same dealbreaker question that converted me from credo- to paedo- (“Why was Ishmael circumcised?“), but with a new twist. Well not new, but unbelievably, I had never noticed it in Gen 17. Before, I had always focused on the establishment [...]

Father Abraham Had Many Sons…

In last weekend’s paedo-/credobaptist debate, Gene Cook pressed a distinction between

Paedo/Credo Debate

If you like theological debate enough to attend two in one weekend, or if you can’t make this one, or if you just really like to drive a lot, you might be interested in trekking up to Murrieta on Sunday night, Aug. 19, to hear Hoagies & Stogies veteran Gene Cook (Theonomy, Amil/Postmil) argue credobaptism [...]

Sacra-licious

My web research reveals two main groups of beliefs about what exactly are sacraments: Catholic and Protestant:

An Allegory

I wanted to share this allegory with those (maybe 2) of my readership (maybe 5) who have given up (probably wise) reading the out-of-control comment trail (140 and counting) of one particular post of mine (to remain unnamed). I’ll present the allegory first, and give the legend at the end (although it doesn’t exactly [...]

Infant Salvation

I want to be sensitive to the anguish of any who might have lost a child or a baby; if this is the case, please do not read the rest of this post. If the Infant Baptism discussion is any judge, the tone of the comments might get too raucous for those who have [...]

Infant Baptism Retake

Well, nobody’s mind was changed by the (ever-growing) interchange on Infant Baptism (except I was strengthened by the discovery of Rom 4:11!! [as DBalc comments, "How could you have not known about Romans 4:11 before making the decision to baptize your children?"]).
The fact that the exchange is starting to degenerate into a link-war (letting smarter [...]

Why I believe in Infant Baptism

The one assumption that is necessary for me to engage Credobaptists with my reasoning, is that Baptism=Circumcision; i.e. the Old Testmant mandate for circumcision (which the NT very clearly explains is gone), was replaced with Baptism, and baptism serves an analogous covenental purpose. I’m pretty sure this point is not in dispute; if so, [...]