Credobaptist objection

[Northern Crofter]

I was agreeing that children are also included in the Kingdom, but how they got placed in there , are "born" into it...

If you stop here you have the crux of the paedobaptist understanding of Scripture and the covenant of grace: children of one or more believers are born into the visible Kingdom, therefore they are baptised, not the other way around (i.e. baptism does not bring them into the covenant - rather it is the sign and seal of the covenantal blessing they were born with).

This is our understanding of I Corinthians 7.14: "This place destroyeth the opinion of them that would not have children to be baptized, and their opinion also, that make baptism the very cause of salvation. For the children of the faithful are holy, by virtue of the covenant, even before Baptism, and baptism is added as the seal of that holiness." (Geneva Bible note)

 

[YeshuaFan]

If you stop here you have the crux of the paedobaptist understanding of Scripture and the covenant of grace: children of one or more believers are born into the visible Kingdom, therefore they are baptised, not the other way around (i.e. baptism does not bring them into the covenant - rather it is the sign and seal of the covenantal blessing they were born with).

This is our understanding of I Corinthians 7.14: "This place destroyeth the opinion of them that would not have children to be baptized, and their opinion also, that make baptism the very cause of salvation. For the children of the faithful are holy, by virtue of the covenant, even before Baptism, and baptism is added as the seal of that holiness." (Geneva Bible note)

The distinction though would be between those who are physical born and those who have been spiritually born, as only that latter group would be the ones actually part of the new Covenant body of Christ