Based on the biblical image of the church as the bride of Christ, Dr. F. LaGard Smith presents baptism as a wedding ceremony between believers and Christ. The result is a perspective on baptism that goes beyond traditional ideas of servile obedience or some “magic” baptismal regeneration. By analogy to marriage, baptism is lifted up as a declaration of love and loyalty through which meaning and vitality are given to authentic spiritual conversion.
This issue biblically and logically answers the most common arguments advanced for supporting infant baptism. It also examines child dedication ceremonies practiced among certain communities who otherwise reject infant baptism.
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