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

“…it is clear that potential converts must respond, by way of repentance and faith in Christ, personally, not “combined” with faith of another person [namely the parents in the act of infant baptism].” -Pg 24

“Jesus’ command to His followers to make disciples of all nations and to baptize and teach them clearly presupposes that the recipients of baptism and teaching are of sufficient age and maturity that they can consciously choose to be baptized and instructed in the principles of the Christian faith.” -Pg 24

Paedobaptists have a dilemma regarding the Lord’s Supper. Biblically, baptism is the requirement for partaking of the Lord’s Supper. But if you’re baptized as a baby, can you take it? Either paedos have to invent a new requirement, which is unbiblical, or allow unbelieving children to partake in the Lord’s Supper, which is eating and drinking in an unweight manner (2 Cor. 11.27-34). -Pg 5-6

“Believer’s baptism accords with the gospel because it teaches that the objective work of God in salvation necessarily leads to the subjective response of faith.” -Pg 2

“Infant baptism compromises [the] teaching [that human beings can be right with God only through faith in Jesus Christ] by counting infants members of the church, either via Sacramental theology, the alleged faith of the infant, presumptive regeneration, the faith of sponsors, or covenant theology.” -Pg 2

“Baptism is not only the sole profession of a redeemed sinner, our “appeal to God for a clear conscience,” as the NT puts it (1 Peter 3:21); it is also a sacred and serious act of incorporation into the visible community of faith.“ -Pg xvii