Discalced Baptist

"What am I to do with my children?"  As a Baptist who has wrestled greatly with infant baptism, this is the question that plagues my mind and has caused me to reconsider the debate so often.  I have 4 young boys, the first of whom was sprinkled in the Presbyterian church we currently attend.  The subsequent 3 children I have withheld from it due to my doubts of the validity of infant baptism.  Baptists have published numerous works, exegeting the Biblical texts, and producing well reasoned theological treatises, but I haven't encountered much in regard to my children's current relationship to the church.  Within the Presbyterian scheme, I can easily identify that my children are a part of the local church, and that it is there duty to take upon themselves the responsibility of their membership as they come into their own faith.  Until that time, they ride in essence upon the coattails of mommy and daddy.  We see examples of this all throughout the worl...

John Murray writes, The writer knows only too well how persuasive the baptist argument respecting infant baptism can be made to appear and how conclusive it becomes to many earnest and sincere Christians.  He knows also how difficult it is to persuade people, whose thinking has been moulded after the baptist pattern, that the argument for infant baptism is Scriptural.  But the reason for this is that to think organically of the Scripture revelation is much more difficult than to think atomistically. ( Christian Baptism, pg 2) I find this quote of Murray's interesting because as a Baptist who attends a Presbyterian church, I've had this accused of me.  As I have wrestled with the issue of baptism, I was told that I spend too much time looking at the details and ergo "miss the forest for the trees."  But I would like to challenge that notion.  If one stands afar in order to see the forest, what you begin to no longer see are the individual trees. ...