not understood as conferring or guaranteeing salvation. Instead, it is seen as a sign of God’s promise. This argument has much to commend it. I can well understand why believers who are committed to the authority of Scripture would draw this conclusion. But I don’t ultimately find it persuasive. Nor do the churches that go by the name of “Baptist,” and virtually all nondenominational churches. We can boil down the most decisive reasons against infant baptism into two points. First, there are no clear