Infant
Baptism
by Chad Shaffer and
Mike Stine
Intro
Infant Baptism
Believer's
Baptism
Three Modes of Baptism
Our
Conclusions
The
second form of baptism that is performed by the church is
believer’s baptism. It
is clearly illustrated throughout the New Testament that people
were baptized after they professed a belief in Christ. This is illustrated most vividly in Acts 8, when the
Ethiopian eunuch asked Philip to baptize him after he put his
faith in Christ. Though
believer’s baptism is given as a sign of conversion it is by no
means a means of salvation. The
only way to be saved is by trusting in what Christ has done for us
on the cross. This is
illustrated for us as we look at the thief on the cross.
Here Christ tells the thief that today he will be with Him
in paradise, but the thief dies and never has a chance to be
baptized. Believer’s
baptism is also mentioned repeatedly throughout the writings of
the early church fathers. Nearly
every church father agreed on believer’s baptism.
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