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Originally Posted by blhowes  I just wanted to nail down something in my thinking. To the Presbyterian, to postpone baptism of your child until they've professed faith, as baptists do with their children, would deprive your child of what? |
You are FUNCTIONALLY excluding the child from a rite of the covenant community. IMHO, this discussion is about biblical PRINCIPLES. In other words, does Scripture teach us to exclude our children from the covenant community or not? If it does, then no baptism, no status in the Church, nothing.
In Christ,
Daniel