Accurate Exaggeration

Recently, in reference to Reverend Sadler’s The Second Adam and the New Birth, I made a rather significant claim about the thoroughness with which nearly every word in the book is shown to be supported in Scripture and that if every Scripture reference were indexed, the index itself would be several times as long as the book.

Technically speaking, this may have been an exaggeration, but the point being made is not at all inaccurate. The reality is that once the paradigm is authoritatively, biblically set out in the opening chapters, the author can quote scriptural passages rather extensively without a great deal of commentary, and effect a clear perception that this doctrine permeates the Scriptures. Indeed, as far as the Initial Sacrament is intertwined with the doctrine of God’s covenantal dealings, this particular book on Christ as the Second Adam and Baptism as the New Birth into Him cannot help but boast of a plethora of Scripture quotes.