Here is a treatise on baptism I wrote about ten years ago. Since it's relevant to the feast, I thought I would post it. It's also available here. It talks about all the ways that baptism is prefigured in the Old Testament and the New Testament, along with some early Christian testimony about the meaning of baptism. If your Evangelical friends are telling you that Scripture says that being "born again" refers merely to a decision for Christ or to an emotional experience, this is what you need to read (since Scripture most certainly teaches that it refers to baptism).
Continue reading Prefigurements of Baptism in the Scriptures.
