The Church Fathers, Medieval Theologians, and Protestant Leaders on Baptism

INTRODUCTION The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed (A.D. 381), which unites all Christians in orthodoxy, has the believer affirm that, “I believe in one baptism for the remission of sins.” How did the writers of this creed understand this statement? Was baptism referring to spirit or water? Were modes of baptism an issue? Were infants to be baptized?…

What the Earliest Non-Biblical Authors Say About Evangelicalism

  Introduction The popular Evangelical apologist J. Warner Wallace wrote an article titled What the Earliest Non-Biblical Authors Say About Jesus. Wallace begins by posing the intriguing question: “What would we know about Jesus if we lost every Biblical manuscript on the planet?” Wallace goes on to survey “the accounts of those early Christians who learned directly from the Biblical…

Born Again by Water and Spirit

Introduction How are people born again? This question was prompted when Jesus made a mysterious comment to a Pharisee named Nicodemus: “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (John 3:3) When Nicodemus expressed his confusion, Jesus gave what might seem like an even more cryptic reply:…