I've made several posts recently. I realise you probably will not engage the issue, but maybe you'll read, anyways. SO here is a bit on this topic.......
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In terms of having his children less privileged than the Paedo-Baptists Malone says, “I think not.” He is wrong. God was angry with Moses for not applying the covenant sign. Abraham was told to be sure to apply the sign of the covenant or else he would “break” the covenant. Why does Malone think the New Testament sign is any less significant when it is Christ that is being ignored in the fullness of the New Covenant refreshed? He even goes so far to assume that a non-covenanted child can partake of the “possible” blessing seen in 2 Samuel 12:23 that David said when “he would go to him.” Why would Malone tread back into the Old Testament to retrieve comfort from a Covenant Theological Scripture? He has already rejected this. This comes down to Malone’s own ideas here – if he needs a New Testament “clear instituted prescribed” practice for his children to be blessed, then he should look to the New Testament and try to dig up a non-covenantal argument from weary Dispensational theology. There are none. The children of believers are blessed based on the promises of the Old Testament fulfilled in the New Covenant in Christ, and are special to Christ when they are inducted into the covenant by reception of the sign. By his own admission, I am curious as to why Malone is even bothering with “rescuing” his children from the Paedo-Baptists admission of their non-covenantal status. Why does he feel the need to do this? Can’t he just say they are wicked little brats, and that God cares nothing for them since they are not regenerate (he hates them) and leave it at that? Why does he make a fuss? And it is not harsh to say these things since his own theology teaches it. It is what he is trying to prove! The Baptism of disciples ALONE. God cares nothing for His children. What reason does He have to care for them? On the other hand, the faithfulness of God for the promises made to believers and their seed give them every hope that God will be faithful to all those promises. What promises do Malone’s children have as children?
Accordingly, in an individualistiv soteriology as taught by most baptists, children must come to their own knowledge prior to baptism. Certainly we cannot expect this to happen at age two. In fact, I know some college students whom I believe could not do so, either. So where is this treaching in scripture? Where is that passage that tells us this age? Where can we read about it happening this way? Without a direct command (isn't that what Fred said?) and without any type of inference for this belief, I toss it aside as yet another fabricated myth.
