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Since the time of the Reformation some Christians have argued that the historic church’s practice of infant baptism is without proper biblical warrant. The most frequently heard refrain from those in this camp is that because the New Testament contains no explicit command to baptize the infant children of believers, the practice is ultimately based upon an “argument from silence.” In Infant...

1) Where is the historical evidence from the New Testament that Christ and the apostles instituted a new practice with respect to the inclusion of children in the church? This may sound like the same question that we posed at the end of chapter three, but there we asked the question primarily with respect to the prescriptive textual evidence for such a change. That is, we asked the Baptist to show us where in the New Testament we might find positive biblical injunction for excluding the children
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