Hi, all!
I spent a little time searching through these forums and nothing (that I can see) has turned up, so I'll just ask up front here.
One question I have wanted to ask a Paedobaptist for a while now is as follows: People entered the Old Covenant through physical birth. The sign of this entrance was circumcision. People enter the New Covenant by spiritual (re-)birth. The sign for entrance into this covenant community is baptism. I have been wondering, why baptize after physical birth when people can no longer enter the Covenant by physical birth? How does the contrast between the entrances into the two covenants play into the paedo-/credobaptism debate?
Thanks in advance for answers!
I spent a little time searching through these forums and nothing (that I can see) has turned up, so I'll just ask up front here.
One question I have wanted to ask a Paedobaptist for a while now is as follows: People entered the Old Covenant through physical birth. The sign of this entrance was circumcision. People enter the New Covenant by spiritual (re-)birth. The sign for entrance into this covenant community is baptism. I have been wondering, why baptize after physical birth when people can no longer enter the Covenant by physical birth? How does the contrast between the entrances into the two covenants play into the paedo-/credobaptism debate?
Thanks in advance for answers!