Why Adriel Sanchez Changed His Mind About Infant Baptism

by Heidelblog on March 7, 2025 |

Pastor Adriel Sanchez shares his journey from credobaptist to paedobaptist. While our Baptist brothers and sisters disagree, Pastor Adriel shares how the more he studied the Bible, the more he came to believe that the scriptures don’t just allow for infant baptism, but necessitate it. Continue reading →

In Person Is Best

by Heidelblog on March 4, 2025 |

But before one decides to avoid the alleged “ivory tower” of seminary, before one decides not to fight the battle of uprooting one’s self or family, we should count the costs. One of the benefits of in-person seminary education is that it . . . Continue reading →

The Polish Reformed (1570) Rebuke The Anabaptists For Denying Infant Baptism

by Heidelblog on March 2, 2025 |

We also rebuke and reject all Anabaptists, who repeat their baptism and do not allow little children among God’s people to be baptized. James T. Dennison Jr. ed., Reformed Confessions of the 16th and 17th Centuries in English Translation: 1523–1693, vol. 3 . . . Continue reading →

Hungarian Synod (1567) Lumps The Anabaptists With Servetus And The Socinians For Denying Infant Baptism

by Heidelblog on March 1, 2025 |

We have decided, in accordance with the Word of God, that despite the howls of Servetus and the new Anabaptists, infants must be baptized together with adults, for the following reasons: 1. The matter of the sacrament, the covenant itself, righteousness, life, . . . Continue reading →

Antwerp Confession (1566): “I Reject The Error Of The Anabaptists” Who Detest The Baptism Of The Children Of Believers

by Heidelblog on February 28, 2025 |

I believe that baptism is the sign of the covenant of God with the seed of Abraham, ought to be given to those who belong to the covenant of grace, and, as a consequence, to the infants of believers. Thus I reject . . . Continue reading →

Second Helvetic Confession (1566): We Condemn The Anabaptists Who Deny Baptism To The Children Of Believers

by Heidelblog on February 27, 2025 |

We teach that baptism should not be ministered in the church by women or midwives. For Paul excludes women from ecclesiastical callings: but baptism belongs to ecclesiastical offices. We condemn the Anabaptists, who deny that young infants, born of faithful parents, are . . . Continue reading →

Beza (1561) At Poissy: “The Anabaptists Have No Stronger Enemies” Than The Reformed On Infant Baptism

by Heidelblog on February 26, 2025 |

I will not consider what concerns the administration of holy baptism, for I believe that none of us, sirs, wants to position ourselves among the Anabaptists, who have no stronger enemies than we. And concerning several other specific questions on this matter, . . . Continue reading →

Scots Confession (1560): “We Damn The Error Of The Anabaptists” For Refusing To Baptize The Children Of Believers

by Heidelblog on February 25, 2025 |

We confess and acknowledge that baptism appertains as well to the infants of the faithful as unto those that be of age and discretion. And so we damn the error of Anabaptists who deny baptism to appertain to children before they have . . . Continue reading →

33 Ministers And 26 Congregations Leave The CRC For The RCA After Synod Requires Churches To Uphold Christian Doctrine On Sexuality

by Heidelblog on February 25, 2025 |

At a church just outside Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Tuesday (Feb. 18), 33 ministers from the Christian Reformed Church in North America stood up to read aloud a declaration, officially accepting ordination in a rival denomination, the Reformed Church in America. Having . . . Continue reading →

Geneva Seminary Students (1551) Reject The “Ravings” Of The Anabaptists Against Infant Baptism

by Heidelblog on February 24, 2025 |

Moreover, although the sacraments are (given) to us for a pledge (arrabon), through which we are reassured of the promises of God, nevertheless I acknowledge that they will be useless to us unless the Holy Spirit should render them efficacious in us, . . . Continue reading →

The Heidelshop Is Here!

by Heidelblog on February 24, 2025 |

Have you had a nagging feeling that there’s something missing from your wardrobe but you just couldn’t put your finger on what it was? The Heidelberg Reformation Association would like to suggest that what you need is some Heidelwear. The Heidelshop is . . . Continue reading →

Zwingli Against The “War Engines Of The Anabaptists” In 1530

by Heidelblog on February 23, 2025 |

Hence I believe that there is one Church of those who have the same Spirit, through whom they are made certain that they are the true children of the family of God; and this is the first fruits of the Church. I . . . Continue reading →

Reformed Church Of Basel (1534): The Denial Of Infant Baptism A “Damnable And Depraved Opinion”

by Heidelblog on February 22, 2025 |

We clearly protest those strange and erroneous doctrines, which turbulent spirits have invented [so as] to reject and condemn, among other damnable and depraved opinions, as when they say infants are too small to be baptized (whom we baptize according to the . . . Continue reading →

The Reformed Churches Detest The Error Of Those Who Refuse To Baptize The Children Of Believers

by Heidelblog on February 20, 2025 |

For that reason we detest the error of the Anabaptists who are not content with a single baptism once received and also condemn the baptism of the children of believers. We believe our children ought to be baptized and sealed with the . . . Continue reading →

Shut It Down

by Heidelblog on February 18, 2025 |

Since its creation in 1979, the Department of Education has sent well more than $1 trillion to schools with the express purpose of closing the gaps between the highest and lowest performers. Today, those gaps are as wide as they have ever been, . . . Continue reading →

Some Kentucky Presbyterians Opposed Slavery

by Heidelblog on February 15, 2025 |

John Rankin (1793–1886) was another towering figure among Southern Presbyterian abolitionists, whose work in both Kentucky and Ohio had a profound impact on the movement to end slavery. Born in Tennessee, Rankin was raised in a devout Presbyterian family that instilled in . . . Continue reading →

What Is Love?

by Heidelblog on February 13, 2025 |

The book begins with one question: “What is love?” Our culture has its answers, but what does the Bible say? Borg then proceeds to answer many other questions we might ask. These include: does God love everyone? What about the love we . . . Continue reading →

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