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Children of the Promise: The Biblical Case for Infant Baptism
In his ten-year ministry, he had put off studying the topic of baptism. Then the Baptist pastor felt his heart sink as he began to see how Scripture challenged his long-held beliefs. What would prompt him to change his views- and find great encouragement in the doctrine of infant baptism? Are there good biblical reasons to baptize the children of believers? What does the Bible say about your children? Robert R. Booth answers these questions by carefully unveiling the covenant promises of God to Christian parents and their households. Robert R. Booth received a Bachelor of Science in history from East Texas State University and is currently a graduate student at the Southern California Center for Christian Studies, where he also serves as program coordinator. Formerly a Baptist pastor for ten years, he now is pastor of Grace Covenant Church, and evangelical and presbyterian church.
208 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1995
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Randy Booth
10 books6 followersPastor Randy Booth holds degree in history and psychology from Texas A&M, and has completed graduate studies in theology and apologetics. He has been an ordained minister for 32 years and has been the pastor of Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nacogdoches, TX [CREC], for sixteen years.
Pastor Booth has been married to his wife, Marinell, for 42 years and they have three grown children and sixteen grandchildren. He has overseen the planting and establishment of six churches, was the Presiding Minister of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches for five years, is the director of Covenant Media Foundation, a conference speaker, co-founder of Veritas Classical Christian School in Texarkana, AR, and served as the chairman of the founding board of Regents Academy in Nacogdoches, TX, where he is currently the chaplain. He is the author of several books, including Children of the Promise and the Church Friendly Family.
Pastor Booth has been married to his wife, Marinell, for 42 years and they have three grown children and sixteen grandchildren. He has overseen the planting and establishment of six churches, was the Presiding Minister of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches for five years, is the director of Covenant Media Foundation, a conference speaker, co-founder of Veritas Classical Christian School in Texarkana, AR, and served as the chairman of the founding board of Regents Academy in Nacogdoches, TX, where he is currently the chaplain. He is the author of several books, including Children of the Promise and the Church Friendly Family.
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June 20, 2019
I had been reading and wrestling with covenant theology for nearly two years when I read this book. I found it very helpful.
August 8, 2023
Very mixed feelings about this book. Positives first: The book is easy to read (an underrated quality in theological books), well written and well organized in terms of the flow of argument. Randy Booth does a great job in clearly arguing from his premises to the conclusions he draws, and, for the most part, he is pretty logical in his reasoning. The book also hits right at the heart of the Baptist/Presbyterian debate i.e. the nature of the relationship between the New Covenant in Christ and the previous covenants (Noahic, Abrahamic, etc.). Additionally, the argument that baptism and circumcision represent the same spiritual reality is quite strongly presented. The book represents the typical Reformed Presbyterian view on infant baptism well. Also, he does not accuse Baptists of causing transgenderism, so that's a plus.
As for the negatives, there are multiple small critiques and then one fatal flaw. First, Booth is rather loose with his usage of quite a few terms (salvation, redemption, the Kingdom of God, etc.) in such a way that I am sometimes not sure what he means by them. He also rather unhelpfully conflates multiple terms, using dispensational and Baptist as synonyms (they are not) and referring to the Old Testament as the same thing as the Old Covenant (linguistically, the words "testament" and "covenant" are near synonyms, but that's traditionally not how Christians use the terms). The chapter on the household baptisms is extraordinarily weak and contains many arguments from silence. In that chapter, Booth also acts like there is not such a thing as a non-infant believing child, as he always presents the false dichotomy of either having a household with adults and infants or having a household with only adults. But the fatal flaw to his whole argument is his foundational assumption that every Biblical covenant from the Fall onward is all really just the same "one Covenant of Grace." Given how gigantic this assumption is and how his whole argument rests on this idea (and also given that this assumption is shared with many Presbyterians), you would expect Booth to have a whole lot of Biblical evidence to support a massive claim like that. Nope. While Booth argues extensively on why they must all be the same covenant, it is much more of a philosophical argument rather than Biblical. As far I could tell, he only cites one passage to directly support this claim (Ephesians 2:12) which says that multiple covenants had a singular promise (salvation through Jesus). From this, he deduces that, contrary to what that very verse explicitly says, there must only REALLY be one covenant because of the one promise. Why can't multiple different covenants share that one promise while still being different covenants? Beats me. To his credit, he does try to deal with the many passages that seem to specifically distinguish between the "old" and "new" covenants, but I found his answer to only work in the abstract. As soon as I look at a specific passage where the Bible refers to the "new covenant" as "not like the covenant that I made with their fathers" (Hebrews 8) and passages like 2 Corinthians 3 that separates the ministry of the Spirit (New Covenant) from the ministry of the letter (Old Covenant), the weakness of Booth's argument makes itself apparent.
In short, I think Booth fulfills his stated goal of answering the question "How could anyone believe in infant baptism?" while at the same time falling far short of proving the covenant theology necessary to lead to his final conclusion on infant baptism.
As for the negatives, there are multiple small critiques and then one fatal flaw. First, Booth is rather loose with his usage of quite a few terms (salvation, redemption, the Kingdom of God, etc.) in such a way that I am sometimes not sure what he means by them. He also rather unhelpfully conflates multiple terms, using dispensational and Baptist as synonyms (they are not) and referring to the Old Testament as the same thing as the Old Covenant (linguistically, the words "testament" and "covenant" are near synonyms, but that's traditionally not how Christians use the terms). The chapter on the household baptisms is extraordinarily weak and contains many arguments from silence. In that chapter, Booth also acts like there is not such a thing as a non-infant believing child, as he always presents the false dichotomy of either having a household with adults and infants or having a household with only adults. But the fatal flaw to his whole argument is his foundational assumption that every Biblical covenant from the Fall onward is all really just the same "one Covenant of Grace." Given how gigantic this assumption is and how his whole argument rests on this idea (and also given that this assumption is shared with many Presbyterians), you would expect Booth to have a whole lot of Biblical evidence to support a massive claim like that. Nope. While Booth argues extensively on why they must all be the same covenant, it is much more of a philosophical argument rather than Biblical. As far I could tell, he only cites one passage to directly support this claim (Ephesians 2:12) which says that multiple covenants had a singular promise (salvation through Jesus). From this, he deduces that, contrary to what that very verse explicitly says, there must only REALLY be one covenant because of the one promise. Why can't multiple different covenants share that one promise while still being different covenants? Beats me. To his credit, he does try to deal with the many passages that seem to specifically distinguish between the "old" and "new" covenants, but I found his answer to only work in the abstract. As soon as I look at a specific passage where the Bible refers to the "new covenant" as "not like the covenant that I made with their fathers" (Hebrews 8) and passages like 2 Corinthians 3 that separates the ministry of the Spirit (New Covenant) from the ministry of the letter (Old Covenant), the weakness of Booth's argument makes itself apparent.
In short, I think Booth fulfills his stated goal of answering the question "How could anyone believe in infant baptism?" while at the same time falling far short of proving the covenant theology necessary to lead to his final conclusion on infant baptism.
January 21, 2008
Okay introduction to a basic, maybe even naive, stance on paedobaptism. This won't convince any baptists worth their salt. And paedobaptists will need more than this if they're going to have a position that can withstand the tougher theological challenges that can be brought to bear against our doctrine. (And, it gets a bit tiring reading that all credobaptists are crypto dispensationalists.) Besides that, Booth writes in a conversational tone. He employs good imagery as well. Oh, and who out there won't at least be drawn to our position based on the picture on the front of the book! The perfect white family, pearly white teeth included, all huddle together for a family "huggle," 'cause, after all, only paedobaptists really love their kids.
February 23, 2018
I picked this book up a couple of years ago, but never finished it. I just started it over, and this time it all seemed totally new to me. Robert Booth does an excellent job, in my opinion, of setting a firm foundation from Scripture on why we ought to baptize infants with confidence. The book is primarily geared towards dispensationalists and their belief on the discontinuity of the covenants, but I am confident that Booth set up a list of triumphal chapters on this topic. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning about infant baptism, and to any person who has recently come to affirm infant baptism.
April 2, 2020
As an "accidental" credobaptist, I've been studying baptism for the last year or two as I've been learning more about and adopting a Reformed and covenental framework/hermeneutic. This book was helpful in simplifying some of the main points for me as I find myself falling more firmly in the paedobaptist camp as of late. I think it was definitely written for a more dispensational audience and wish he had addressed the particular Baptist view of baptism and how it compares, but that may have been beyond the scope of the book. He was certainly gracious and humble - as we all ought to be, regardless of which side we fall on the baptism issue.
October 11, 2021
Not bad. Very much a fly-by/overview of infant baptism. As such there were quite a few explosive statements left hanging without further explanation. I don’t think it would convince many baptists.
Also, the fake dialogues made me die a little inside.
Also, the fake dialogues made me die a little inside.
April 9, 2018
I borrowed this from a friend to read; after reading, I am ordering my own copy to have on hand for reference/to reread. A very clear, logical, gracious, easy-to-read presentation of the covenantal understanding of baptism. The practical illustrations Booth gives at the beginning of each chapter give clarity to each point he discusses - these illustrations were helpful to me, and I think they would be especially helpful to someone who is unfamiliar with covenantal baptism. Very well done, Robert Booth - thank you!
January 4, 2015
In Children of the Promise Robert Booth does a good job of showing why dispensationalism is an incorrect theology from a biblical point of view. However, his assumption that all Baptists are dispensationalists is misplaced and therefore he never addressed any of the questions from a Baptist who believes in a single covenant of grace. When dealing with dispensationalism he used lots of scripture, and yet when he moved to the actual issue of infant baptism it was mostly based on the logic of "if this is true then such-and-such must naturally follow." A train of thought that I usually found erroneous, incomplete and/or uncompelling.
I came into this book hoping to find some new insight seeing it was written by a former Baptist, and if I were a dispensationalist I would have found the first half of this book nearly irrefutable. But as a Baptist who believes in a single covenant of grace I found the first half to be repetitive of what I already agreed with and the second half to be the same shaky arguments and conclusions that I've heard a dozen times before.
I came into this book hoping to find some new insight seeing it was written by a former Baptist, and if I were a dispensationalist I would have found the first half of this book nearly irrefutable. But as a Baptist who believes in a single covenant of grace I found the first half to be repetitive of what I already agreed with and the second half to be the same shaky arguments and conclusions that I've heard a dozen times before.
August 26, 2021
I began this book with a lot of emotion and digging my heels in to resist. This book MUST be read with a mind of at least wanting to understand why people (mostly of the reformed tradition) would want to baptize their young children and infants. This comes from a covental point of view which is simply amazing. It is well worth the read to expand knowledge on the subject of baptism or if you want to understand why friends or family would choose to baptize their little ones, like me. It's VERY different from the Catholic perspective on things which is where most people gain their opinion on the subject at some level. The last chapter, Appendix A, and many of the footnotes are well worth the time invested to read the book.
August 1, 2012
Makes a strong case against Dispensationalism in it's effort to argue for Paedobaptism, but unfortunately doesn't really address other alternatives.
January 11, 2013
Booth does a good job laying down the biblical and covenantal basis for infant and household baptism.
February 23, 2023
(Not a review- Jeff Notes: great discussion on Covenant Theology and how we should interpret the Bible.
P.8-Covenant Theology. Throughout the Bible, God relates to his people by way of a covenant of grace. Covenant Theology provides the basic framework for rightly interpreting Scripture.
-Continuity of the Covenant of Grace. The Bible teaches one and the same way of salvation in both the Old and New Testaments, despite some different outward requirements.
p.9 The New Covenant is but a new- though more glorious- administration of the same covenant of grace.
p.16 -Two major systems of interpretation of the Bible- Dispensational and Covenantal methods.
-The dispensational method sees a basic discontinuity between the old and the new covenant (or testament), whereas the covenantal method sees a basic continuity between old and new covenants.
- The Reformed or Covenantal method of interpretation sees a basic continuity between the Old and New Testaments, with the New flowing out of the Old and building on its foundation. The New Testament offers a greater revelation of God and his redemptive Work, but it does not abruptly do away with the Old Testament and start all over… Jesus was unequivocal about the fact that his ministry in no way invalidated the Old Testament. (See Matt. 5:17-19 “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill…”)
p.28 - A “dispensation” is a specific period of time. The dispensational method of biblical interpretation holds that there is much variety and change from one biblical era to the next. God deals differently with men in the various dispensations.
- Covenant theology emphasizes that God relates to men by way of covenants. God has a single, comprehensive plan of redemption extending from Genesis to Revelation. This plan is called “The Covenant of Grace.” The covenantal method of biblical interpretation maintains that God has dealt with men in the same way throughout history.
p.14-16 (example of amend a contract) Ken and Bill are in the lumber business. Ken owns a lumber mill and supplies Bill with lumber for his retail building supply business. They began doing business and drew up a contract and agreed on details that would govern their business relationship (markup, terms of payment, return policy, discounts, credit method of shipment, etc.) Years later Bill wanted to expand his business into a national franchise with multiple outlets. Both realized their contract would have to be changed to address new business circumstances. Instead of tearing up the old contract by addressing new areas to change (e.g. change from railcar to motor freight), they can simply amend or update the old contract. The question of how we should interpret the Bible is whether there is a basic continuity or basic discontinuity between Old and New Testaments.)
P.8-Covenant Theology. Throughout the Bible, God relates to his people by way of a covenant of grace. Covenant Theology provides the basic framework for rightly interpreting Scripture.
-Continuity of the Covenant of Grace. The Bible teaches one and the same way of salvation in both the Old and New Testaments, despite some different outward requirements.
p.9 The New Covenant is but a new- though more glorious- administration of the same covenant of grace.
p.16 -Two major systems of interpretation of the Bible- Dispensational and Covenantal methods.
-The dispensational method sees a basic discontinuity between the old and the new covenant (or testament), whereas the covenantal method sees a basic continuity between old and new covenants.
- The Reformed or Covenantal method of interpretation sees a basic continuity between the Old and New Testaments, with the New flowing out of the Old and building on its foundation. The New Testament offers a greater revelation of God and his redemptive Work, but it does not abruptly do away with the Old Testament and start all over… Jesus was unequivocal about the fact that his ministry in no way invalidated the Old Testament. (See Matt. 5:17-19 “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill…”)
p.28 - A “dispensation” is a specific period of time. The dispensational method of biblical interpretation holds that there is much variety and change from one biblical era to the next. God deals differently with men in the various dispensations.
- Covenant theology emphasizes that God relates to men by way of covenants. God has a single, comprehensive plan of redemption extending from Genesis to Revelation. This plan is called “The Covenant of Grace.” The covenantal method of biblical interpretation maintains that God has dealt with men in the same way throughout history.
p.14-16 (example of amend a contract) Ken and Bill are in the lumber business. Ken owns a lumber mill and supplies Bill with lumber for his retail building supply business. They began doing business and drew up a contract and agreed on details that would govern their business relationship (markup, terms of payment, return policy, discounts, credit method of shipment, etc.) Years later Bill wanted to expand his business into a national franchise with multiple outlets. Both realized their contract would have to be changed to address new business circumstances. Instead of tearing up the old contract by addressing new areas to change (e.g. change from railcar to motor freight), they can simply amend or update the old contract. The question of how we should interpret the Bible is whether there is a basic continuity or basic discontinuity between Old and New Testaments.)
May 5, 2019
Objective rating.
Booth is a former Reformed Baptist pastor.
He begins the book with a calling to intellectual honesty and calls the reader to logical consistency. He graciously addresses something I noticed when reading Baptist theologians--there is an extreme lack of intellectual integrity.
Booth then works off O. Palmer Robinson's work in The Christ Of The Covenants and explains how the exposition of the covenants in Robinson's work is applicable to infant baptism.
He's systematic and extremely gracious--the later being something from which I could learn.
I would recommend this book to anyone who leans Baptist and wants to understand another view point from someone who knows both sides very well and can deal with them graciously.
Booth is a former Reformed Baptist pastor.
He begins the book with a calling to intellectual honesty and calls the reader to logical consistency. He graciously addresses something I noticed when reading Baptist theologians--there is an extreme lack of intellectual integrity.
Booth then works off O. Palmer Robinson's work in The Christ Of The Covenants and explains how the exposition of the covenants in Robinson's work is applicable to infant baptism.
He's systematic and extremely gracious--the later being something from which I could learn.
I would recommend this book to anyone who leans Baptist and wants to understand another view point from someone who knows both sides very well and can deal with them graciously.
October 1, 2021
As someone who has attended both Reformed and Baptist churches my thoughts on baptism have not been all that firm. It didn't worry me either way. Reading this book has definitely given me more appreciation for the meaning of baptism and has solidified my thoughts on infant baptism. I'm now 100% in the infant baptism camp. Children of covenant parents, receiving the sign of the covenant God made with His people and all the wonderful promises that holds.
October 1, 2021
Overall, this book gave me an incredible appreciation and understanding of Covenant theology and paedobaptism. It became especially helpful toward the end of the book in building a good foundation for my understanding of infant baptism. I felt that the dialogue parts were a little cheesy and that he took a while to walk through Covenant theology, but I respect the groundwork he was laying. Very glad to have read this book.
January 30, 2022
Biblically, made lots of sense. Had not heard many of his arguments and was very helpful as I’m navigating through this difficult topic. Did drag on quite a bit and seemed like he was constantly repeating himself. Wished it was like 100 pages shorter.
April 16, 2025
Written from ex-baptist minister, he writes from that point of view. His arguments are worth hearing, pressing into the Covenant Theology reasoning. Though the pretend dialogue is corny, his research is appreciated.
December 21, 2020
Very good and well sourced (biblically) defense for Infant Baptism
April 25, 2025
A fine book, but in my opinion not as helpful as similar works by Herman Hanko or Pierre Marcel.
June 26, 2022
I had a fun time reading this book. This book comes from a pastoral perspective on infant baptism and presents itself in a series of stories with a couple of other Christians in regards to the author’s decision to become a paedobaptist from a credobaptist. The author touches on key main points regarding the doctrine and does it with grace and clarity intending to be in unity regardless of this particular doctrine disagreement. I would have liked to see him touch more of the Reformed Baptist point of view instead of the Dispensationalist position in regards to the view of the covenants and how that corresponds to infant baptism but either way I can’t complain.
August 6, 2019
Tho very informative it was very dry and boring. Difficult to get through.
August 23, 2008
When I went to seminary at City Seminary of Sacramento, CA, I comforted my wife with the statement: "Don't worry, I won't let these men brainwash me into believing infant baptism."
I was right. Partially.
I didn't come to conclude that infant baptism was right until I looked in on the matter further, in depth, and really when I dug into the Scriptures. There have been some teachers, however, like Mr. Booth (former Baptist preacher), who helped point me to the Scriptures and take a second glance at the matter.
This book, along with Jay Adams' "The Meaning and Mode of Baptism," helped me to scrutinize the WHOLE case in the Bible, beginning in Genesis. What I've come to appreciate is the grand story in the Bible, beginning with the beginning.
Up to this point, which was a watershed reading, I had only thought the NT spoke of the case of baptism. I was wrong. As Jesus said to the serpent in the wilderness, "Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."
Looking at the case from God's perspective, from God's mouth, and using biblically-sound interpretation, I can no longer say credobaptism tells the whole story any more than saying ONLY the NT or OT is the "whole counsel" of God.
But hey! As Levar Burton used to say on my favorite kid show (when I was but a wee lad), "Don't take my word for it!" Tolle Lege! Take up and read!
--JMH
I was right. Partially.
I didn't come to conclude that infant baptism was right until I looked in on the matter further, in depth, and really when I dug into the Scriptures. There have been some teachers, however, like Mr. Booth (former Baptist preacher), who helped point me to the Scriptures and take a second glance at the matter.
This book, along with Jay Adams' "The Meaning and Mode of Baptism," helped me to scrutinize the WHOLE case in the Bible, beginning in Genesis. What I've come to appreciate is the grand story in the Bible, beginning with the beginning.
Up to this point, which was a watershed reading, I had only thought the NT spoke of the case of baptism. I was wrong. As Jesus said to the serpent in the wilderness, "Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."
Looking at the case from God's perspective, from God's mouth, and using biblically-sound interpretation, I can no longer say credobaptism tells the whole story any more than saying ONLY the NT or OT is the "whole counsel" of God.
But hey! As Levar Burton used to say on my favorite kid show (when I was but a wee lad), "Don't take my word for it!" Tolle Lege! Take up and read!
--JMH
September 8, 2016
I commend this book for it's straightforward approach to the topic of baptism. While it's not the most elegant prose I've ever read, its loving tone of seeking truth in the pages of scripture was much appreciated. As a former baptist, the author is very aware of, and sensitive to those on the other side of the debate.
Beginning with, "how do you interpret the Bible" the author sets the direction and addresses all the friction points as he goes, rather than going after each individual argument on its own. He looks at what the entire story of the Bible says about God's dwelling among His people. And in that comprehensive view, my belief in infant baptism was affirmed, and my knowledge and understanding of the continuity of the old and new testaments was greatly improved.
I have read quite a few authors on this topic, though often in shorter bursts, rather than a comprehensive book on the topic. It is for this that I am most grateful and will consider the book an important resource for myself on this topic.
Beginning with, "how do you interpret the Bible" the author sets the direction and addresses all the friction points as he goes, rather than going after each individual argument on its own. He looks at what the entire story of the Bible says about God's dwelling among His people. And in that comprehensive view, my belief in infant baptism was affirmed, and my knowledge and understanding of the continuity of the old and new testaments was greatly improved.
I have read quite a few authors on this topic, though often in shorter bursts, rather than a comprehensive book on the topic. It is for this that I am most grateful and will consider the book an important resource for myself on this topic.
February 20, 2014
Read this one a couple of times back when I was younger and wanting to work through the infant baptism issue. Probably the best single-volume introduction to the pro-infant baptism side of the argument I've ever seen.
What makes it particularly effective is that Booth used to be a Baptist pastor until he changed his mind theologically on this issue and had to switch. So the book is written for his Baptist friends explaining why he made the switch and how to think through the issue. His book is very logically laid out - it starts with the continuing of Old and New Testaments, then an explanation of the unfolding covenant, before moving on to the verses that talk about baptism in the New Testament. This is a smart move. Too often, people jump straight in to the verses and you can almost certainly find whatever position you want if you take that approach. But by taking a systematic approach, the argument is much more compelling when you get to the end of it.
What makes it particularly effective is that Booth used to be a Baptist pastor until he changed his mind theologically on this issue and had to switch. So the book is written for his Baptist friends explaining why he made the switch and how to think through the issue. His book is very logically laid out - it starts with the continuing of Old and New Testaments, then an explanation of the unfolding covenant, before moving on to the verses that talk about baptism in the New Testament. This is a smart move. Too often, people jump straight in to the verses and you can almost certainly find whatever position you want if you take that approach. But by taking a systematic approach, the argument is much more compelling when you get to the end of it.
April 4, 2013
Randy gave me this book several years ago, which was prior to me moving to the church he was pastoring in Texarkana.
When I read it, I happened to be going to a Southern Baptist church, but I was not a Southern Baptist. I was raised in the western Roman Church, so I had a sitgma about infant baptism which mostly boiled down to "If the catholics do it, we're against it.". You can see the flaws in that logic.
Regardless, I read this book many times and my mind was convinced, but my heart was not there. It wasn't until I read Christ of the Covenants that both books really opened up and opened up the WHOLE bible to my.
Great conversational read and reasoning, mainly because he was a baptist preacher when he wrote the book, but became convinced of the views he is writing about.
When I read it, I happened to be going to a Southern Baptist church, but I was not a Southern Baptist. I was raised in the western Roman Church, so I had a sitgma about infant baptism which mostly boiled down to "If the catholics do it, we're against it.". You can see the flaws in that logic.
Regardless, I read this book many times and my mind was convinced, but my heart was not there. It wasn't until I read Christ of the Covenants that both books really opened up and opened up the WHOLE bible to my.
Great conversational read and reasoning, mainly because he was a baptist preacher when he wrote the book, but became convinced of the views he is writing about.
October 21, 2013
This book is a clear, plain look at the reasons why the author believes in infant baptism. It is written from a Presbyterian perspective (as compared with the Roman Catholic and Lutheran perspectives). It is pastoral and down-to-earth, no intense parsing of Greek verbs or detailed linguistic studies. If you want to know why a conservative Presbyterian believes it is important to baptize infants, this is a great place to start.
February 21, 2012
A solid defense of the Reformed doctrine of infant baptism. Also a good introduction to covenant theology. Contains a lot of helpful illustrations to help bring home the abstract doctrines. One drawback: I found the book to be a bit repetitive. Definitely worth reading, especially if you don't believe that the debate about infant baptism is important.
July 17, 2023
Would have given it four stars if the title made it clear that it’s about only a dispensational view of God’s revelation, which it does a good job at countering. But I Picked it up hoping for a good positive case for the paedobaptist view but, though informative, it falls flat for a covenantal baptist reader.
February 27, 2010
One of the best and most biblical books I've read concerning the unity of the bible and Baptism. I would most certainly recommend this book to anyone uncertain about of wishing to know why some people believe the children of believers should be baptised.
July 5, 2012
A brief study on paedo-baptism and it's biblical support, given specifically for those who were or are reformed Baptist. It's a great study with a lot of material presented in a very understandable way. If anyone has questions on these issues, this is the first book that I would give them.
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