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Zeke Shatzer
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“…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
— Aug 10, 2026 02:55PM
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Zeke Shatzer
is on page 152 of 364
“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
— Aug 13, 2026 04:54PM
Zeke Shatzer
is on page 137 of 364
“…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
— Aug 13, 2026 04:31PM
-Pg 137
Zeke Shatzer
is on page 136 of 364
“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
— Aug 13, 2026 04:29PM
Zeke Shatzer
is on page 126 of 364
“…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
— Aug 10, 2026 03:15PM
Zeke Shatzer
is on page 124 of 364
“…one may legitimately ask why circumcision disappeared as a covenant sign… if circumcision and baptism are parallel in significance.” -Pg 124
— Aug 10, 2026 02:46PM
Zeke Shatzer
is on page 121 of 364
“…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
— Aug 10, 2026 02:09PM
Zeke Shatzer
is on page 95 of 364
“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
— Aug 02, 2026 03:00PM
Zeke Shatzer
is on page 95 of 364
“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
— Aug 02, 2026 02:59PM
Zeke Shatzer
is on page 94 of 364
“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
— Aug 02, 2026 02:57PM
-Pg 94
Zeke Shatzer
is on page 94 of 364
“…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
— Aug 02, 2026 02:54PM