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Baptism Yet Again

by Phil Gons on August 21st, 2007

baptism-yet-again.jpgWhat started out as an interchange between Wayne Grudem and John Piper developed into a discussion involving 9Marks’s Mark Dever and Aaron Menikoff. The dialog—no longer really a back-and-forth debate—continues.

Abraham Piper raises the question of whether Baptists should consider paedobaptists as unrepentant sinners, which seems to be the necessary conclusion if, from the Baptist’s perspective, non-first-generation paedobaptists are failing to obey the Scriptural teaching to be baptized after conversion. It would seem logically that, if they are sinning unrepentantly, they are destined for hell.

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More Baptism Discussion

by Phil Gons on August 16th, 2007

more-baptism-discussion.jpgLast week we highlighted the back and forth between Wayne Grudem and John Piper on the subject of baptism—particularly if Baptists should allow paedobaptists into membership.

The discussion was spurred by Grudem’s rewriting his section “Do Churches Need to Be Divided Over Baptism?” in his Systematic Theology. Piper didn’t like the changes that Grudem made. Grudem responded to Piper, holding his ground (even though his very own wife was on Piper’s side!).

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