Recently, a friend of mine challenged my thinking on baptism. Specifically, he said that he wanted to ensure that my reading of Scripture in this area is exegetical and not eisegetical. Essentially, the question presented is whether I am a credo/immersing baptist due to study or due to culture. The gauntlet thrown down, I’ve now immersed myself in a study of baptism (its meaning, mode, and proper subject), and I plan to write a paper on my findings. When engaged in lengthy legal writing I have a proven system; I look for the best positive arguments for all sides of an issue, then for articles critiquing the positive arguments. I then create a spreadsheet with all arguments and counterarguments, and then begin my writing. For legal writing, this mechanical system is an easy way to go about discovering the law. However, for thoroughly addressing the positive arguments for paedobaptism my normal method has proven difficult for a variety of reasons. I’m fairly well versed, for a layman, in...
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