Romans922
Puritan Board Professor
Multiple people on other threads have repeatedly stated those with Baptist views on infant baptism are in great sin.
This is due to two things:
1) There is a thread on this very topic: https://puritanboard.com/threads/do-you-believe-it-sin-to-neglect-baptism-of-infants.101107/
2) This is language from the Westminster Confession of Faith and this is a Confessional board:
5. Although it be a great sin to contemn or neglect this ordinance,a yet grace and salvation are not so inseparably annexed unto it, as that no person can be regenerated or saved without it,b or that all that are baptized are undoubtedly regenerated.c
a. Luke 7:30 with Exod 4:24-26. • b. Acts 10:2, 4, 22, 31, 45, 47; Rom 4:11. • c. Acts 8:13, 23.
What do you want people to say if that's their confession? Are any other baptists taking this personally? There are plenty of baptists on the PB, but none are taking it personally. Many presbyterians and baptists on this board, in real life, are great friends. In other words, I encourage you to stop taking it personally, and work to understand our view and why we believe this. If God commands it (as we believe) and it's a sacrament, then of course it is a great sin to neglect it. You'd say the same thing, for example, about the Lord's supper. If a professing Christian neglects partaking in the Supper that Christ has commanded us to partake in, that's a great sin. You'd agree, would you not?