Do the scriptures teach us to baptize our children? Or do they teach us to lead people to Christ and to baptize them after repentance and faith? Are we to view our children as members of the covenant? Is baptism meant to replace circumcision in the new covenant? What about those verses in scripture where everyone in the house was baptized? Wouldn't that include the children? These questions and more illustrate the long standing debate over infant vs credo baptism. On March 23rd 2015 James White and Gregg Strawbridge debated it at The Orlando Grace Church in Orlando Florida.
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“ Born again believer, baptised as a child ” Acts 10:28 explains 1 Cor 7:9: ESV — And he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean.
What paedobaptists end up doing is using the Lord's Supper as evidence of a child's faith: 1 Corinthians 11:26 ESV — For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
At the end of the day, children should be allowed in church, we should partake in these 'sacraments', and these commitments should be seared into our conscience along with the discipline and admonition of the Lord.
And we definitely should not have a band raised up to where the preacher is.
James White is the director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, a Christian apologetics organization based in Phoenix, Arizona. He is a professor, having taught Greek, New Testament Textual Criticism, Church history, and various topics in the field of apologetics. He has authored or...
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