If I had to guess, being familiar with everyone who has registered here, I would have to say it is fairly evenly split, with perhaps the balance even going over to the Baptist camp.
This quote states that it is the opinion of the person making this quote that "everyone" who has registered here on The-Highway.
By taking this poll, you are not going to get "everyone" who has registered.
But I feel that you will get a pretty good idea at least of the majority view as far as the active members of the forum.
If asked, I would have said that I would have believed that the majority of the active posters on this forum are Paedobaptist.
Now with saying all of that, I believe in paedobaptism. But I will quickly add that I don't view the difference in whether a church chooses to baptize their infants or not as a big deal. If I lived in a community where there was only one biblically reformed church and it was baptist, I would attend that church and be happy to be a baptist. But being as I have a choice in the matter where I live now, I prefer to attend a Presbyterian church and having the children of the congregation baptized.
This isn't an issue that I stand firm on one way or the other. Because I see valid reasons for both sides and I just can't come to my own conclusion concerning my own hermeneutic to say for sure what Scripture dictates. For me, the most essential point is that we all need to be baptized by the Holy Spirit and that water baptism is just a external sign of an internal confession.
But as I stated above, I like being a Presbyterian and I like taking the covenantial approach to biblical interpretation and in doing so, I believe that infant baptism makes sense in God's redemptive plan revealed to us in both the OT and the NT.
Y.B.I.C,
Dave.
