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,
Page 12