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I guess I'm looking more for the negative side of this, are there babies that Reformed/Presbyterian clergy should not baptize? Or is it come one, come all?
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What are the requirements for infant baptism?
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heymikey80
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For infants? The child of at least one believing parent or guardian, who vows to raise the child in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, in the environment of a family dedicated to Christ.
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The child needs to be the child of one or both believeing parents. I will have to look at the Westminster Confession but I am relatively sure that is what it states. I cannot remember how it reads off hand.
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Westminster Confession of faith:
28:4 Not only those that do actually profess faith in and obedience unto Christ, but also the infants of one or both believing parents, are to be baptized.
28:4 Not only those that do actually profess faith in and obedience unto Christ, but also the infants of one or both believing parents, are to be baptized.
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Regarding this kind of situation, is a dividing line drawn by a pastor or a board? I've seen a post on another forum that hints at the wife being the "head of household" and the husband being 1 foot in, 1 foot out of their church. In other words neither of them attend, but he professes faith and she does not. I think if I was a pastor and baptism was "ordered" as if it were a checkbox for a kid's entrance into Heaven, I would have a serious problem with baptizing the youngster. In other words, at the very least certain beliefs would have to be affirmed. There is a connotation, then, of "playing God" with this rite through an examination process. Is this right?
Next question, let's say I'm clergy and I decide not to baptize because I don't believe that one or both parents wish to follow the Lord. No problem, they head down the street to another church and order baptism off the menu, and lo and behold, the child is baptized the following weekend. Was this a valid baptism? Is the child truly marked for heaven as one of God's own? Or, if this is all up to God anyway, do we just call it all good and baptize away?
And now for the really negative, by not baptizing, am I literally saying that the child can go to hell?
Next question, let's say I'm clergy and I decide not to baptize because I don't believe that one or both parents wish to follow the Lord. No problem, they head down the street to another church and order baptism off the menu, and lo and behold, the child is baptized the following weekend. Was this a valid baptism? Is the child truly marked for heaven as one of God's own? Or, if this is all up to God anyway, do we just call it all good and baptize away?
And now for the really negative, by not baptizing, am I literally saying that the child can go to hell?
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