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Gavin Ortlund on Baptism

LIVING · REFORMED BAPTIST
STANDARD SCHOLARLY ACCOUNTAFFIRMS°
STANCE

Believers only, on profession of faith

THE POSITION

Believer's baptism.

WHY THERE IS NO QUOTATIONOne quotation, on spiritual-warfare, from a machine transcript of a solo Truth Unites episode, and copyright is not the reason the rest have none: this map quotes MacArthur, Heiser and Sproul at length, all modern authors in copyright. An earlier pass is recorded under research/ortlund — the transcript panel would not open on either Truth Unites video tried, and both books are paywalled. That is an access problem rather than a permission problem, and it produced one honest finding: the original-sin cell is a null recorded as searched and not located, with its own reason. The other eight have had no pass at all.

SCRIPTURE
MATTHEW 28:19 · BSB

19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,

9 OTHERS HOLD THIS

Voddie BauchamThe Church of Eleven22 Statement of FaithBilly GrahamJosh HowertonSecond London Baptist ConfessionJohn MacArthurJustin PetersJohn PiperCharles Haddon Spurgeon
Infants included, as a covenant signJACOBUS ARMINIUS · CALVIN · JONATHAN EDWARDS · TIM KELLER · JOHN OWEN · R.C. SPROUL · WESTMINSTER CONFESSION · ZWINGLI
Infants included, and effective for regenerationAQUINAS · AUGUSTINE · CHRYSOSTOM · CONSTANTINOPLE I · IRENAEUS · LUTHER · PHILIP MELANCHTHON · NICAEA I · JOHN DUNS SCOTUS · WESLEY
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Pastor and author behind Truth Unites. Works on retrieving the church fathers for Protestants and on charitable engagement with Catholic and Orthodox claims.

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"Gavin Ortlund on Baptism", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/ortlund/baptism (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/ortlund/baptism).

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