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In the RPCGA BCO it states, "After prior notice is given to the presiding pastor, the child is to be presented by the father and/or mother, professing his and/or her earnest desire that the child be baptized."
For us it would be a non-issue on two accounts, 1) they must be in earnest to do this and present the child, and 2) if they did not, then there would be something fundamentally wrong with thier membership and the church since we would never allow a non-paedo to join the church.
Though baptism is not necessarily a priveledge of membership (cf. the Ethiopian Eunuch, and the Apostle Paul), it still does not stand to reason that implicit arguments for covenantaing and children (neither of which the Eunuch or Paul had) is not something specifically tied to the local church and covenant community. You would have three issues to face: 1) theology behind baptism, 2) theology behind who lawfully administers it and why, 3) theology behind church membership and covenant children.
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