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“It is not the insistence that baptismal recipients be believers that distinguishes Baptist theology, but the definition of a ‘believer’ as a person who confesses Christ freely and intelligently with his or her own mouth.” -Pg 204

“[According to Luther] in baptism the infant comes under the hearing of the Word, which penetrates his heart and creates faith; he answers the baptismal questions through the mouths of his sponsors.” -Pg 194

Makes no sense lol

“Clearly, faith cannot be both the prerequisite for baptism and the gift bestowed by baptism.”
-Pg 191

“The evidence from the third century points to the origin of infant baptism in the practice of baptizing morally ill infants due to an increasing belief that baptism was necessary for the salvation of the child.” -Pg 180

“There is no defense of infant baptism prior to the third century.” -Pg 168

“… circumcision, as a type, pointed to a spiritual regeneration. Baptism, on the other hand, testifies that by faith these realities have occurred.” -Pg 159

“Nowhere does the NT say that circumcision is now unnecessary because baptism has replaced it…This answer is never given because baptism is a new rite, applied to each person who has repented and believed, who has been born of the Spirit, united to Christ, and has demonstrated that he has entered into the new covenant realities inaugurated by our Lord.”
-Pg 157

“The NT is clear: the benefits that come to us and baptism are tied to faith and faith alone… But with that said, it is significant that Scripture links all the gracious benefits of the believers being united to Christ with water baptism.” -Pg 152

“…this…is at the heart of the promise of the new covenant in Jeremiah 31 now fulfilled in Christ…the Lord will unite Himself with a spiritually renewed covenant people, all of whom will know Him, in contrast to the “mixed” nation of Israel, who broke the covenant.”
-Pg 137

“Now that Chris has come, only those who have faith and have experienced spiritual rebirth are His people and part of His family.” -Pg 136

“…Scripture speaks in terms of a plurality of covenants, which are all part of the progressive revelation of the one plan of God that ultimately is filled in the new covenant.” -Pg 126

“…paedobaptists, due to their stress on continuity, tend to read new covenant realities into the OT and vice versa, without first unpacking the covenants, the nature of the covenant community, and the covenantal signs and their original redemptive-historical context before thinking carefully through the issues of continuity and discontinuity now that Christ has come.” -Pg 125

“…one may legitimately ask why circumcision disappeared as a covenant sign… if circumcision and baptism are parallel in significance.” -Pg 124

“…the paedobaptist attempt to reduce the meaning of circumcision merely to its spiritual significance is a classic example of reading new covenant realities into the old without first unpacking the OT rite in its own covenantal context, and then carefully thinking through the issues of continuity and discontinuity between the covenantal signs.” -Pgs 120-121

“Paul argues in both Galatians and Colossians that circumcision points to the cross of Christ and the new creation inaugurated by Him. Baptism, then, is tied to the saving work of the Spirit which produces faith in the lives of believers.” -Pg 95

“Those supporting paedobaptism often support their case by appealing to the parallel between baptism and circumcision in Col. 2:12. The alleged parallel does not stand, however, because the connection is between baptism and spiritual circumcision, not physical circumcision.” -Pg 95

“Baptism is applied to those who have received the Spirit by faith, not to those whom it is hoped will receive the Spirit in the future.”
-Pg 94

“…it is hard to grasp how infants might be dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus, just as it is unclear how they could be regenerated and renewed in God’s Spirit.” -Pg 94