Infant baptism is evil because it inhibits Christ's plans to convert the world. INFANT BAPTISM IS EVIL BECAUSE ITS DEFENSE LEADS TO THE MOST SCUMBLE PERVERSIONS OF GOD'S WORD. How, then, can infant baptism be taught and advocated without a most pernicious perversion of God's word.
In the consideration of this argument, so specious to many minds, generally so successful, and therefore advanced with so much
Therefore, in the Christian church there is a great high priest, who is the pastor or bishop of the whole visible church of God on earth. Therefore you will understand that we have a divine command for a great high priest, who is the Pastor or Bishop of the whole visible church of God on earth.
I, in the second place, remark that this Judaistic argument for infant baptism cannot be maintained, because it is directly in conflict with
We saw in the last chapter an example of the influence of Judaism among the Corinthians, and the painful confusion which it caused in regard to domestic and social intercourse. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith.
This argument for infant baptism, in the third place, fails entirely, because it perverts, and renders wholly unintelligible, the true
This, as set forth in the word of God itself, is the true and exact analogy between the Jewish church and the Christian church. In the Jewish church, sacrifices to God on behalf of the people were made by priests only; in the Christian church all the people are priests and bring their own offerings to God through Jesus Christ; for.
This Pedobaptist argument, I remark in the last place, is palpably anti- scriptural
They are already, in a sense, within the bounds of the church and the covenant of promise.”5 The Westminster. Sacramentarians, that the Wittenberg reformers again approached the teaching of the [Pontifical] Church. This is maintained uncompromisingly by both the Papists of the West and the Greeks of the East.
In these facts and considerations we have revealed another evil of infant baptism. It completely undermines the basic doctrine of the work of regeneration by the Spirit of God. We are now prepared to investigate what effect infant baptism has on the character of the church.
Does not this, insofar as it prevails, throw the whole population of the country into the church? Thus Methodism proves that the blood of the mother flows through the veins of the daughter. The founders of the New England churches had thrown off the shackles of a tyrannical hierarchy in the United States.
Origen, who lived in the middle of the third century, was the first to advocate it.
The opinion began to prevail as early as the middle of the second century, that there is in baptism some mysterious, secret, inexplicable
Why, I may wonder, would something like infant baptism ever occur in people's minds. It owes its existence, I answer, solely to blind superstition, which first convinced men that there is a mysterious, secret, inexplicable efficacy in baptism, which conveys the grace of God to the soul of the recipient; next, that without baptism no one, adult or infant, could be saved; and finally, that according to some, babies actually do that. Already in the middle of the second century the opinion began to prevail that there was something mysterious, secret and inexplicable in baptism.
A kindred doctrine grew up with this, and soon took possession of the general mind, that no one, of whatever age, without baptism could do.
A kindred doctrine grew up with this, and soon took possession of the general mind, that no one, of whatever age, without baptism could
But as we have seen, the impression of the importance and necessity of baptism was constantly increasing in intensity, and the result was,. The qualifications for baptism were naturally also reduced in their number and extent, and finally, if the children could not answer the questions themselves, their friends were allowed to answer for them. The liturgy then, as now, required that all who were baptized, in preparation for receiving the ordinance, should renounce the world, the flesh and the devil, confess their faith in Christ and promise to obey the gospel walk all the days of their lives.
In these facts we have the true history of the origin of sponsors, or sureties for infants, in baptism. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia says: “In the second century, Christians began to be divided into believers, or those who had been baptized, and catechumens, or those who received instructions on how to qualify for baptism. To account for these [last] persons, sponsors or godfathers were first introduced.”10 By this means the consciences of all were calmed.
No doubt grumblings were occasionally uttered by those who knew anything of the religion as taught in the word of God. Infant baptism was now instituted and justified by the grace granted in the ordinance, by its necessity for salvation, and by its expedient.
Infant baptism was now established, and justified, by the grace conferred in the ordinance, its necessity to salvation, and the expedient
The whole doctrine, in all its absurdity, is infallibly embodied in the liturgy of the ancient church. Minister - Do you believe all the articles of the Christian faith contained in the Apostles' Creed? We believe that all infants are unconditionally saved by the Holy Spirit imparting to them the salvation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Child salvation is guaranteed in the first place by the nature of the divine government. But provision was made for them. unconditional salvation, in the satisfaction of the second Adam. So it is true that in the resurrection of the body, all will be resurrected.
Babies are saved in the same way that all other redeemed are saved, by the grace of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. Is it the means through which "the merits of the life and death of Christ" are conveyed to the child? It is.
Infant baptism leads its advocates into rebellion against the authority of Christ in regard to the persons to be baptized
The authority of the main Christ; the baptism of infants despises it, as regards the persons to be baptized, the profession of faith required, and the form of baptism; hinders the obedience of believers. To enlighten and guide you, he has given his most holy word, in which you have instructions on all subjects and to the greatest extent. It leads to the violation of the divine commandments concerning the persons to be baptized, the preliminary declaration of faith, the form of the ordinance, and the obligations of Christian obedience.
Infant baptism leads its advocates into rebellion against Christ's authority over the persons to be baptized. And if any zealous preacher of righteousness should undertake to baptize one of these baptized infidels, he would, after his conversion, be subjected to the disgrace and civil penalty of being an Anabaptist. After the return of the monarchy, these were forced to submit to the ordinance, and to this end they reformed the liturgy and introduced the "office", then for the first time, for adults.
As regards the persons appointed to receive this ordinance, so completely and effectually does infant baptism lead to rebellion against the divine law, and undermines the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ. Infant baptism is a humiliation of Christ's authority, for it renounces a certain profession of faith as a condition for.
Infant baptism offers an indignity to the authority of Christ by dispensing with the appointed profession of faith as a condition of
It also perpetuates the change of form, and thus wholly abolishes baptism itself
Jesus Christ, by a profession of faith, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Infant baptism therefore perpetuated the change in form and thus completely abolished baptism itself.
Infant baptism prevents the obedience to Christ of believers
These are some of the obstacles that infant baptism throws in the way of obedience. BAPTISM OF CHILDREN IS AN EVIL BECAUSE OF ITS SUPPOSED MORAL AND RELIGIOUS CONNECTION. Frequent pilgrimages, for example, were undertaken to Palestine and to the tombs of the martyrs.
They can be read in the Histories of the Church by Ivimy, Jones, Benedict and others. But we must not forget that persecution is one of the consequences of infant baptism. But is it not in the nature of the same cause to produce the same effects?
BAPTISM OF CHILDREN IS AN EVIL BECAUSE IT GIVES THE POWER OF THE CHURCH TO FIGHT ERROR. They profess to believe in the regenerating efficacy of the Holy Spirit, but limit it to the medium of baptism. Infant baptism thus destroys the power of the church to combat error, and proves itself a most deplorable evil.
BAPTISM OF CHILDREN IS AN EVIL, BECAUSE IT DAMAGES THE CREDIT OF RELIGION WITH THE REFLECTED MEN OF THE WORLD.
It does so, in the first place, because it is really in itself irrational
Therefore, to honor the cause of Christ and to win people to truth and salvation, your faith and your practice must be such that no one can point to them and say, this is irrational; it is without authority; it is suspicious in its character; it is a sectarian device. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven." But infant baptism does not honor, it inevitably injures the credit of religion, with intelligent reflecting men of the world. None for the child; none for the parents; none for the church; none for religion; none to the world; in no way whatsoever.
What reasonable person can believe that the child, or any other person, is the better for it, either in this life, or in the next. It is, in fact, wholly irrational, and in the estimation of intelligent, thinking, unprejudiced worldly men, must detract painfully from the credit of religion. Infant baptism, in the second place, damages the credit of religion, because it is practiced without any authority.
Infant baptism, in the second place, injures the credit of religion, because it is practiced without any authority whatever
Infant baptism, in the third place, injures the credit of religion by casting suspicion upon the whole subject
Finally, infant baptism, as practiced among us, is a well-arranged sectarian device
This redemption is made personal to us through the work of the Holy Spirit in the new birth. Infant baptism delays Christ's plans in converting the world by bringing Baptists and Paedobaptists into conflict. Do you say that the designs of Christ in the conversion of the world are not thus delayed.
Infant Baptism delays the patterns of Christ in the transformation of the world, departing from work in time; Talents, learning and church money. Infant Baptism delays Christ's patterns in world conversion by barring a large number of ministers from the foreign field. Infant baptism delays Christ's plans to restore the world, giving the name of Christians to the forsaken and depraved.
Pagans and Mohammedans recognize them as Christians and as true representatives of the religion of Christ. Infant baptism hinders Christ's plans for the conversion of the world by creating strife and sectarian prejudice everywhere.