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It must, therefore, be understood of adults only, who are not to be baptized except they believe. Neither can our opponents say of adults that they certainly do believe. If infants, therefore, are not to be baptized because they do not believe, then neither are those to be baptized who have arrived
Instead, we're dependent upon our Savior. It's in light of this verse that one commentator said this, We should not think that a babe must receive the kingdom as an adult receives it. But absolutely the reverse is true. The child is the model, not the man." End quote. And now, connect it back t
A child is morally too irresponsible to appropriate the blessings of his baptism to himself by a public confession. It is because of the circumstance that the perfectly appropriate and necessary custom of infant baptism is a sacrament independent from that of the holy supper. An infant is impression
Furthermore, they are to “be piously and religiously educated, increase and grow up in the Lord Jesus Christ”(Form for the Administration of Baptism). Infant baptism implies that our children belong to Jehovah, since He has cleansed them by the blood of his son. They are baptized into Christ (Rom. 6
3 It is common in the churches of today to baptize children of believers. But this was not always the case and is not always the case today. First of all we must cling to the truth of infant baptism. There are those who would wrest this wonderful truth from us. To them we must give no heed. Secondl
Some teach that the baptism of infants is based upon their presupposed, or presumptive, regeneration. We must suppose that infants are regenerated: and therefore they ought to be baptized. Even Ursinus, in his "Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism," seems to suggest this doctrine. Writes he: "Fait
In answer to this we can say that infants are to be baptized to have them distinguished from the world as also of the church of Jesus Christ. And they receive the blessing through the sacrament when they come to conscious faith. Baptism, Covenant
in that we do not read explicitly of baptism of an infant? Why is this silence in favor of infant baptism? III. The Significance of Holy Baptism A. God realizes His covenant through means of instruction 1. A great fallacy would come into being, if we would conclude from the above that children are