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Originally Posted by armourbearer  If you allow a two year old to be baptised on profession of faith in Christ, is he then admitted to the table? |
Note: I'm answering with reference to Baptists in general, not necessarily Reformed Baptists.
An example of a child of two years of age is a little far fetched, but I wouldn't put it past some Baptist church somewhere to have done it. I think 4 or 5 is much more common. (Some Baptists have referred to this as basically a late stage paedobaptism.) And I think in those cases the child is admitted to the table as well. I haven't seen any arguments that they shouldn't be. The one difference between someone that age and someone maybe 10 or 12 years older would probably be voting in congregational meetings. I don't know what the practice is with regard to that. I've never been a member of a Baptist church, so others can better answer that question.
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