Commenting on the appeals to 1 Pet 3:21; John 3:5; Acts 3:38 and Titus 3:5 by advocates of baptismal regeneration, including Trent Horn in his The Case for Catholicism, Reformed Protestant Samuel James made the following (and very telling) confession:
When Horn confronts the reader
with verses that literally link baptism with salvation and the forgiveness of
sins, the average Protestant experiences immediate cognitive dissonance. Horn
makes it appear as though the Protestant position relies on ignoring the plain
reading of Scripture to preserve a non-sacramental theology. (Samuel James, Debunking
Trent Horn’s Catholicism: A Protestant Critique [2026], 89)
