Here is a blog post entitled "Why I am Still a Baptist" by Robert Gonzales. I thought I would share it with the board and perhaps begin some discussion on it.
Why I’m Still a Baptist | It Is Written
Here is the major theme of the post:
Here are three main points that he notes:
To get the full argument, it would be beneficial to read the whole article.
Is there a response from the paedo side on the views presented about this particular text of Scripture? or any comments from the Credo side?
Why I’m Still a Baptist | It Is Written
Here is the major theme of the post:
But after “revisiting” the issue several times, I’m still a Baptist. I could offer several reasons. But one reason involves the teaching of a text that’s often overlooked in the Infant Baptism (Paedobaptism) vs Believer Baptism (Credobaptism) debate. That text is John 1:12-13. I’d like to make three observations on this text and explain why I believe it doesn’t support the idea of baptizing non-professing children of believers and bringing them into the membership of a New Covenant church.
Here are three main points that he notes:
1. The passage is not merely explaining the “way of salvation” (ordo salutis), that is, God’s method of saving sinners at all times; it’s primarily highlighting a shift in redemptive history (historia salutes), that is, God’s manner of administrating the paradigm of redemption (commonly called the Covenant of Grace) in history.
2. The passage is not merely referring to the divine causation of a moral change in individuals, that is, regeneration; it’s primarily highlighting a divine conferral of legal covenantal status, that is, adoption.
3. The passage predicates the divine conferral of a legal covenantal status no longer on natural descent but on supernatural descent, the fruit and evidence of which is saving faith in Jesus Christ.
To get the full argument, it would be beneficial to read the whole article.
Is there a response from the paedo side on the views presented about this particular text of Scripture? or any comments from the Credo side?