Are there many baptist churches that follow the regulative principle?
One thing that bothers me about baptist argumentation regarding baptism is a lot of the time it ends up with something like: we should baptize only believers because the Bible only clearly teaches that believer's are baptized (I know that there are some passages that are disputed regarding families and also that this is not the only argument for the credo-baptist position). Anyway, that makes me think of the regulative principle (only worshipping God in ways prescribed in Scripture (I think)). It would seem that to be consistent with this type of argumentation, more baptist churches should follow the regulative principle.
Thoughts?
One thing that bothers me about baptist argumentation regarding baptism is a lot of the time it ends up with something like: we should baptize only believers because the Bible only clearly teaches that believer's are baptized (I know that there are some passages that are disputed regarding families and also that this is not the only argument for the credo-baptist position). Anyway, that makes me think of the regulative principle (only worshipping God in ways prescribed in Scripture (I think)). It would seem that to be consistent with this type of argumentation, more baptist churches should follow the regulative principle.
Thoughts?