Zeke Shatzer’s Reviews > Believer's Baptism: Sign of the New Covenant in Christ > Status Update

“[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