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Originally Posted by joshua  Actually, Pastor Shishko pressed from the beginning for White to prove that the household principle had been rescinded from its initiation in Genesis. He did not press the Covenant hard per se because Dr. White has not been too terribly clear on what his position of the Covenant is. Personally, I don't think Dr. White is "Covenantal" Baptist such as the likes of Jim Renihan, Fred Malone, et al. But don't get me to lyin'.
I was not convinced by Dr. White's approach because he failed to do the one thing that Pastor Shishko asked of him. Prove the clear and evident abrogation of God's command to apply the sign to whole households. I've listened to Pastor Shishko's 23 sermons on the subject of Christian Baptism and I hope he'll consider putting this material into book form. |
To me, abrogation is secondary. God making a eternal covenant in blood, swearing against Himself, is the primary point. It is the epicenter of everything that God is. To deny this fact is akin to building another golden calf and saying that God WILL again destroy the Earth w/ water again, when He has specifically promised not to.
Hebrews 6:13-19 13 For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, 14 saying, "I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply you." 15 And thus, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise. 16 For men swear by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath given as confirmation is an end of every dispute. 17 In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath, 18 in order that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have strong encouragement, we who have fled for refuge in laying hold of the hope set before us. 19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure Hebrews 6:19 and steadfast and one which enters within the veil,