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title: 'Is Infant Baptism Scriptural?'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'John Murray'
date: 1938-12-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Sacraments'
- 'Ecclesiology (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Galatians 3'
- 'Romans 4'
- 'Matthew 16'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/murray-1938-is-infant-baptism-scriptural
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# Is Infant Baptism Scriptural?

Argues for covenant continuity: infant baptism is scriptural because circumcision prefigured baptism and the visible church includes children. Also notes changes in Barth's theology.

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