{"id":1661,"date":"2013-08-20T14:53:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T12:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonofcarey.wordpress.com\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2013-08-20T14:53:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T12:53:27","slug":"the-evils-of-infant-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/?p=1661","title":{"rendered":"The Evils of Infant Baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"

This list comes from <\/span>Robert B. C. Howell<\/a>, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1851-1858, and <\/span>the entire book is available online<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Infant baptism is an evil because its practice is unsupported by the word of God.<\/li>\n
  2. Infant baptism is an evil because its defense leads to most injurious perversions of Scripture.<\/li>\n
  3. Infant baptism is an evil because it engrafts Judaism upon the gospel of Christ.<\/li>\n
  4. Infant baptism is an evil because it falsifies the doctrine of universal depravity.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. Infant baptism is an evil because the doctrines upon which it is predicated contradict the great fundamental principle of justification by faith.<\/li>\n
  6. Infant baptism is an evil because it is in direct conflict with the doctrine of the work of the Holy Spirit in regeneration.<\/li>\n
  7. Infant baptism is an evil because it despoils the church of those peculiar qualities which are essential to the church of Christ.<\/li>\n
  8. Infant baptism is an evil because its practice perpetuates the superstitions that originally produced it.<\/li>\n
  9. Infant baptism is an evil because it subverts the scripture doctrine of infant salvation.<\/li>\n
  10. Infant baptism is an evil because it leads its advocates into rebellion against the authority of Christ.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  11. Infant baptism is an evil because of the connection it assumes with the moral and religious training of children.<\/li>\n
  12. Infant baptism is an evil because it is the grand foundation upon which rests the union of church and state.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  13. Infant baptism is an evil because it leads to religious persecutions.<\/li>\n
  14. Infant baptism is an evil because it is contrary to the principles of civil and religious freedom.<\/li>\n
  15. Infant baptism is an evil because it enfeebles the power of the church to combat error.<\/li>\n
  16. Infant baptism is an evil because it injures the credit of religion with reflecting men of the world.<\/li>\n
  17. Infant baptism is an evil because it is the great barrier to Christian union.<\/li>\n
  18. Infant baptism is an evil because it prevents the salutary impression which baptism was designed to make upon the minds both of those who receive it, and of those who witness its administration.<\/li>\n
  19. Infant baptism is an evil because it retards the designs of Christ in the conversion of the world.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Of these points, which form the chapters for his book, the ones <\/span>bolded<\/b> are those I found most persuasive.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Why did I post this list?<\/p>\n

    I am to some degree taken with the gospel-centered movement represented by T4G and the Gospel Coalition. There is strong Scriptural support for a gospel-centered kind of ministry. (Gal. 6:14, et. al.) \u00a0Yet, I\u2019m also uneasy with the theological ambivalence that can surround \u201cnon-essential\u201d issues such as baptism, speaking in tongues, women in ministry, old-earth theories of creation, and views of the millennium. Maybe these are all second tier doctrines because none of them in part or in full is the gospel. Or, maybe they each have one foot in the secondary and one in the primary category.<\/p>\n

    Is it possible that non-gospel doctrines can actually have a direct and logically necessary effect on God\u2019s plan of salvation? Are all secondary doctrines exclusively secondary? This list might serve to call attention to the important aspect of \u201cunimportant\u201d teachings of Scripture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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