Infant Baptism and the Silence of the New Testament (Biblia.com)

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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...

The significance of this statement should be obvious. Not only does Peter entreat his listeners to repent of their sins and be baptized, but in the same breath (so to speak) he tells them that the promise of which he speaks is to them and their children. We’ll address more directly the way in which baptism has replaced circumcision as the sign of the covenant in the next chapter. But for now it is the second part of Peter’s statement that is relevant to our discussion here. Peter’s reference to the

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