Silas22
Puritan Board Freshman
I recently watched a video of Bryan Chapell providing the biblical basis for infant baptism. He refers to the text in 1 Cor 7:14
For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
Bryan believes this text to teach that the children and spouse? of a believer are covered by their faith until they reach the age to follow Christ themselves. To that I have a few questions, which are honest and may seem basic to many of you, but I honestly would love to know more about this position.
For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
Bryan believes this text to teach that the children and spouse? of a believer are covered by their faith until they reach the age to follow Christ themselves. To that I have a few questions, which are honest and may seem basic to many of you, but I honestly would love to know more about this position.
- Do paedo-baptists believe that children of believers are saved by their parents faith until they can make a profession of faith?
- Is the unbelieving spouse made holy (saved) by the believing spouse? If so, is there a cutoff point? If so, when?
- What about children born to unbelieving parents? Are they assumed damned? Or do paedo-baptists have a similar "Age of accountability" belief system? If they do, then doesn't that seem to take away the significance of baptism?