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Originally Posted by SemperFideles  The testimony itself is not fallible but the Word is. The institution is not fallible but yet it has a responsibility and authority to testify of that truth. |
Don't you mean this the other way around? "The testimony itself is not
infallible, but the Word is. The institution is not
infallible, but yet it has a responsibility and authority to testify of that truth." It's the Roman Catholics who think that their
institution is infallible.
As for baptism, I think it's helpful to see it as similar to eschatology: the Church has culled three different main views of eschatology (pre, post, and a) from the same scriptural information. Good Reformed men have historically held all three positions.
In a similar way, the Church has culled two different main views of baptism from the same scriptural information (credo and paedo). Again, good Reformed men have historically held both positions.
Now, we paedos think the credos are wrong, and vice versa. Since both sides try their best to base their views on Scripture, the best thing for everyone to do is to for each side to hold its view sincerely. Then, some day, when we're all in Heaven, we'll find out who is right. The same is true for eschatology.
And, by the time we find out who was right, we'll all be completely perfected saints and it won't matter anymore, anyway!