I saw this article this morning (linked on the Aquila Report). I'll let some of the Baptist brothers respond, but if the author is correct (and I think he basically is), the differences are perhaps much deeper than we sometimes admit.
The Christian Curmudgeon: Can Baptists Be Reformed?
The article does an excellent job of pointing out the soteriological implications of antipaedobaptism, and how they have infected the thinking of many Presbyterians. I have cringed in the past at hearing Presbyterians describe how they led their child, who already professed faith in the Christian faith he had long been taught, through a "conversion experience." To be fair, I do not think holding to the LBC necessitates viewing conversion this way, and I hope it is not the common attitude of confessional Baptists past and present. However, there is something about antipaedobaptism that creates this kind of thinking, and when Baptists become Presbyterian, it can be difficult to escape the mindset.
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