If one believes in Covenant Theology, would he have to believe in infant baptism?

Is a belief in premillenialism consistent with a belief in Covenant Theology?

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Curt Hayashida
member, Community Bible Church (Non-denominational)
Vallejo, CA

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Bill Brown
Elder
Grace Baptist Church
Anne Arundel County, Maryland

Deo volente

No. Infant baptism is correct, but not necessarily for that reason.

Yes (me, sort of).

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J. B. Atken
John Knox PCA
Layman, M.A. student at Louisiana College

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Sterling Harmon
Coventry, CT
PCA
Deacon
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"Whatever is laudable in our works proceeds from the grace of God."
-- John Calvin, Institutes III:xv.3.

"Our Lord God must be a good man, to be fond of worthless fellows. I cannot like them, and yet I, myself, am one."
-- Martin Luther, Table Talk

1. No
2. Yes (- not that I am pre-mill)

But o/w as has been pointed out this is a

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Satch Chikhlia, Reformed Baptist, Surrey, England

"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God." Colossians 3.1

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Curt, what it comes down to is your perspective. If you subscribe to the WCF, you MUST conclude that paedobaptism is a necessary inclusion in CT. If you're an LBC subscriber then you have an obvious departure. In the end, does anybody really care? Both sides are quite capable of labeling the other, but that only works to frame discussion.

Yes. Anyone who claims otherwise is being inconsistent.

Yeah! I said it!

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Davidius
Husband of Emilia
Member: First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Durham (RPCNA) - Durham, NC
Student: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, German Literature and Classics

This may explain the old adage about Baptists being Methodists with shoes, and Presbyterians being Baptists who can read. To round out the adage, Lutherans might qualify as Presbyterians who drink to excess, and Episcopalians as Lutherans who know when to say when. - D.G. Hart

1. Those who deny infant baptism generally spiritualise the covenant of grace and make its administration applicable only to the elect. In this they depart from traditional covenant theology, which acknowledges the temporal administration of the covenant is conditional and does not depend on individuals first certifying their election.

2. The "promise" is a significant element of covenant theology, and "fulfilment of the promise" is essentially the focus of eschatology; hence eschatology matters to covenant theology. A premil advocate might have created certain quarantined areas where his eschatology has not been permitted to infect his covenant theology, but if he allows his tenet access to the general population it will not be long before it distorts his covenant theology the same way it affected the Jews, who looked for a temporal consummation of the kingdom.

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Yours sincerely,


"Illum oportet crescere me autem minui."

I am far from an expert on eschatology, but that is my understanding as well. I didn't think one could be a "strict" pre-mil and subscribe to Covenant Theology...

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Mason
Member, Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA)
New York, NY

"Come now, and let us reason together," says the Lord, "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool." - Isaiah 1:18