With great frequency it is claimed that it is impossible to hold to a classic covenantal theology without embracing the practice of infant baptism, that the term 'Reformed Baptist' is actually an oxymoron. After all, if infants were circumcised under the Abrahamic covenant, why should infants not be baptized under the New Covenant? Yet all of this raises an extremely vital question: 'who are the true heirs of the Abrahamic covenant, and who are the true heirs of the New Covenant?' In this exposition of Genesis 17 and other texts it is demonstrated that there is a strong and robust exegetical basis for being both covenantal and credobaptistic, for the true heirs of both the Abrahamic and New Covenants are not our natural born children, but all God's elect from every age.
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Jerry Slate, Jr. was born in Marietta, GA and was raised in a godly Christian home, the youngest of three children. He was converted to Christ and baptized when he was eight years old. He obtained a B.A. from Columbia Bible College in Columbia, SC in 1991, majoring in Bible and...