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Infant Baptism and the Silence of the New Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

told us whether the children in such homes were baptized on the basis of their parents’ faith, or had expressed biblical faith on their own; or if he had recorded a single instance of a child who had been born into a Christian home who only later received the sign of baptism based upon his own profession of faith. Of course, even better would have been explicit language from one of the Apostles giving instruction as to who were the proper subjects of Christian baptism in the first place. But all
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