There is one main argument against paedobaptism (infant baptism). And that is this: You don't have to do it. Nothing in Scripture mandates it, and there's not one example of it. Everyone must repent and be baptized. No one must baptize their children who have yet to repent.
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Replying to @Pastor_Gabe @D_B_Harrison
Yep, except the baptism of 'households', the fact that "I will be a God to you and your children", and the sacrament of baptism as NC circumcision. Oh, and most of the early church witness on the matter. Denial of paedobaptism is grossly reductionistic. ;)
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Just a friendly reminder there is more to this passage. Before, and after.pic.twitter.com/DTxRwTnUK1
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"Be baptized" and the promise "for your children" is book-ended by "repent" and "everyone whom the Lord our God calls to Himself."
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Which is why I call Credobaptism reductionistic - we have no problem accommodating the obvious fact that adult converts need to repent and believe. We just don't end it there and cut infants and the mentally handicapped out of the Covenant.
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Replying to @AndyTGD @Pastor_Gabe and
You're assuming they have a right to the covenant in the first place, only by natural generation. The NT makes it quite clear those in the NC are the Children of God by 're'-generation, not merely generation.
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Replying to @DateNowney @Pastor_Gabe and
They have at least as much of a right to the covenant as the Children of Israel had to circumcision. The NT is clear that children of believers are set apart and holy (1 Cor. 7:14). God didn't drop the ball on this for c.1500 years, guys.
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To be clear, not all the children were circumcised. Circumcision did not mean one was a child of God or loved by Him. OT Circumcision in the flesh points not to baptism but to true circumcision of the heart: Romans 2.
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