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To A Thousand Generations: Infant Baptism—Covenant Mercy to the Children of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

In arguing for biblical infant baptism, it is not sufficient for us to say that infant baptism is merely consistent with the Scriptures, or that a biblical case can be made for it. In order for us to be satisfied that we are being biblical Christians, we must be content with nothing less than a clear biblical case requiring infant baptism.

debate, but it is something that must be addressed so that the discussion can proceed—this matter is quite a stumbling block. To an evangelical baptist, all forms of infant baptism look like Roman Catholicism, or like something that is headed there at a rapid clip. It therefore must be said with some emphasis and force that the arguments below are evangelical and covenantal, and not sacerdotal. To be explicit, all teaching that grace is somehow imparted to an infant ex opere operato (automatically,
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