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John Piper on Baptism

B. 1946 · REFORMED BAPTIST
STANDARD SCHOLARLY ACCOUNTAFFIRMS°
STANCE

Believers only, on profession of faith

THE POSITION

Believer's baptism by immersion.

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SCRIPTURE
ROMANS 6:3-4 · BSB

3 Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.

8 OTHERS HOLD THIS

Voddie BauchamThe Church of Eleven22 Statement of FaithJosh HowertonSecond London Baptist ConfessionJohn MacArthurGavin OrtlundJustin PetersCharles 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 · WESLEY
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Longtime pastor of Bethlehem Baptist, Minneapolis, and founder of Desiring God. Reformed soteriology combined with continuationism and historic premillennialism.

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

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