Jonathan95
Puritan Board Sophomore
Speaking as a paedobaptist, I certainly hope you don't study paedobaptism, find it a suitable notion, and adopt it. One's baptismal practice should be a conclusion flowing from one's theology. If someone adopts a practice with an inadequate foundation, one may easily backfill the "basis" for it with some very peculiar and pernicious nonsense. This concern is the reason why SF proposed you should study some solid theology prior to poking around in some heretical swamp.
How does one's theology change if not by study and prayer? I would think that most of what I've read is solid. I have read the Canons yes. Albeit roughly 5 or 6 years ago when I first came to faith. It is difficult to have only been in churches that essentially teach that all of these issues are not worth debating about. "The focus of the church should be the gospel and evangelism." That's all that gets discussed in the few churches I've been a member of. So baptism and all of these doctrines I have been left to study on my own, with others only purporting that such is only a cause for divisiveness. Forgive me if I have come across as arrogant or if my studying of these topics is worrisome. These are topics I am unfamiliar with is all. And maybe my theology as a whole needs to be seriously considered.
Thank you for your replies and resources. They have been nothing but helpful.