“ Great Sermon! ” I appreciate the way you preach Scripture and the reality of life in Jesus and death apart from Jesus. In order to avoid our sinful interpretation of Scripture by which sinners can imagine many different ideas that are not verified by the word of God, I'd rather let doctrines derive out of Scripture, The Reform teaching on infant baptism, seems to be putting the teaching first and searching to prove it from Scripture. I am very uncomfortable with this since I believe that we need to rest our understanding on what is clearly taught in Scripture. I understand the theological construct of a child being born into a household of Covenant believers, and the desire to find someway to duplicate the sign of the covenant from the Old Testament through infant baptism. The pattern that is seen in Scriptures is often circumcised children raised with the knowledge of God, often wandered into rebellious and willful disobedience to God's teaching.
Among the Reform New Covenant Church, we see an example of this in the second generation unbelieving children of the Puritans who settled in New England.
