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Should the Presby Pastor do baptize the children?
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In my understanding, if someone asked me to do this, I would not.
Why? WCF 28:1 - "Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ,(a) not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized
into the visible Church." 1 Corinthians 12:13, "For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body..."
If the visible church is what we are ultimately baptized into, then the local body, with its members, is the covneant community that should happen in. There would be, in my understanding, something wrong with "Joe's" understanding of what consitutes the covenant community, and what a "covenant community" is to begin with.