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What Is Baptism? (Crucial Questions, #11) QUOTES

1 " with no known protest is a further indication that the acceptability of giving infant children the covenant sign was simply assumed by the early church. It seems that infant baptism was "

― R.C. Sproul , What Is Baptism? (Crucial Questions, #11)

2 " ¿Quién fue el mayor profeta del Antiguo Testamento?”. Algunos dicen Elías; algunos dicen Isaías; otros insisten en Jeremías. Finalmente yo digo: “No, el mayor profeta del Antiguo Testamento fue Juan el Bautista”. A veces nos olvidamos de que si bien leemos sobre Juan el Bautista en el Nuevo Testamento, él vivió antes de que Jesús inaugurara el nuevo pacto en el aposento alto la noche de su traición. Así que la economía del antiguo pacto se extendía desde el principio en el huerto del Edén hasta el momento de la Última Cena. "

― R.C. Sproul , What Is Baptism? (Crucial Questions, #11)

3 " As Protestants, we say that justification is by faith alone. That little word by is critical to our understanding of how justification takes place. It does not mean that faith is meritorious and obligates God to save us. Rather, the word by indicates grammatically what we call the instrumental dative, which describes the means by which a thing comes to pass.
So, to use Aristotle's categories, faith is the instrumental cause of justification, according to the Protestant view. "

― R.C. Sproul , What Is Baptism? (Crucial Questions, #11)

4 " Cualquiera que sugiera que el bautismo es innecesario está desafiando el mandato de Cristo mismo. "

― R.C. Sproul , What Is Baptism? (Crucial Questions, #11)

5 " But when God makes a down payment and promises to finish the transaction, we need not worry about Him making the full payment. "

― R.C. Sproul , What Is Baptism? (Crucial Questions, #11)

6 " Academy of Biblical and Theological Studies. His teaching can be heard around the world on the daily radio program Renewing Your Mind.
During his distinguished academic career, Dr. Sproul helped train men for the ministry as a professor at several leading theological seminaries.
He is the author of more than seventy books, including The Holiness of God, Chosen by God, The Invisible Hand, Faith Alone, A Taste of "

― R.C. Sproul , What Is Baptism? (Crucial Questions, #11)

7 " Salvation, then, is a movement from one realm into another realm, from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light, and the confession captures this idea when it speaks of engrafting into Christ. "

― R.C. Sproul , What Is Baptism? (Crucial Questions, #11)