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Chapter 28: Of Baptism (Part 4)

Speaker: Reverend Joseph Poon

Website: http://www.bpcwa.org.au/

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Introduction - (00:00)

QUESTIONS

WCF 28.4

Q1. What are some common arguments against infant baptism? – (08:50)

Q2. Why did the Old Testament believers circumcise their infants and what is the significance of doing so to the parent and to the child? Were all circumcised people genuinely saved? How is this related to infant baptism of the New Testament? – (13:00)

Q4. Was circumcision only for ethnic and national purposes, and hence cannot be a New Testament concept of water baptism replacing it? Explain. – (35:30)

Q3. How do we know that water baptism replaced circumcision? But how can it be so when only males were circumcised but both male and females (adult or infants) are baptized in the New Testament? – (1:05:40)

Q5. How is infant water baptism different from adult water baptism? – (1:16:45)

Q6. Is the covenantal family concept also present in the New Testament? What does God say about family members of the believer? What does this inform us about God and infant baptism? – (1:25:17)

Q12. Should we baptize infants when only one parent is a believer? What is the basis for that? – (1:31:12)

Q7. Was infant baptism practiced in Scriptures? Or was it added to Scriptures? Please give examples. Is the practice of infant baptism an addition to Scriptures or the failure to practice it a deletion from Scriptures? – (1:39:06)

Q9. Why do we not baptize adults and teenagers of believers who have not become believers, but we would for a believer’s infant?

Q10. Why not practice infant dedication instead? – (1:45:02)

Q11. What is the Roman Catholics belief about water baptism (for both adult and infants)? Should we stop infant baptism because of the Roman Catholic’s erroneous teachings and beliefs? Why? – (1:47:17)

Q8. What is therefore the purpose of infant baptism? What must parents learn from this reminder? – (1:52:26)

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CHAPTER XXVIII OF BAPTISM

1. BAPTISM is a sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ,1 not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized into the visible church;2 but also to be unto him a sign and seal of the covenant of grace,3 of his ingrafting into Christ,4 of regeneration,5 of remission of sins,6 and of his giving up unto God through Jesus Christ, to walk in newness of life:7 which sacrament is, by Christ’s own appointment, to be continued in this church until the end of the world.8

1. Matt. 28:19

2. I Cor. 12:13

3. Rom. 4:11; with Col. 2:11-12

4. Gal. 3:27; Rom. 6:5

5. Tit. 3:5

6. Mark 1:4

7. Rom. 6:3-4

8. Matt. 28:19-20

2. The outward element to be used in this sacrament is water, wherewith the party is to be baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, by a minister of the gospel, lawfully called thereunto.9

9. Matt. 3:11; John 1:33; Matt. 28:19-20

3. Dipping of the person into the water is not necessary; but baptism is rightly administered by pouring or sprinkling water upon the person.10

10. Heb. 9:10, 19-22; Acts 2:41; Acts 16:33; Mark 7:4

4. Not only those that do actually profess faith in and obedience unto Christ,11 but also the infants of one or both believing parents are to be baptized.12

11. Mark 16:15-16; Acts 8:37-38

12. Gen. 17:7, 9; with Gal. 3:9, 14; and Col. 2:11-12; and Acts 2:38-39; and Rom. 4:11-12; I Cor. 7:14; Matt. 28:19; Mark 10:13-16; Luke 18:15

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Westminster Confession of Faith Series

Bible Presbyterian Church of WA

Friday 7th June 2019

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