Correct! I had kinda sorta studied it before, half-heartedly, when I left the Charismaniac movement for a Presbyterian church. Rabidly excited to have "discovered" the Reformed faith for the first time, and eager to just get out of Charismania, I embraced paedobaptism mainly to get into a Reformed church.
A few apparent "contradictions" confused me (like why we baptized infants but forbade them from taking communion until they were able to articulate their faith; or why we interpreted the New Testament by the Old instead of the other way around), but I was satisfied just to be part of a body that remained faithful to the scriptures and guided by the historical creeds, rather than "however the Spirit moved" and however the teachers felt "led" to interpret the scriptures.
Indeed I might not have studied the issue seriously at all if not for the crisis that followed, years later, at my PCA church.
One of the articles that really helped tip the scales for me was
this wonderful article by Dr. Walter Chantry. His reasoned arguments dealt with the "contradictions," and some other research uncovered that Baptists employ a different
hermeneutic from that of their Presbyterian brethren (Baptists don't "deduce by good and necessary consequence," but rely only on what is
contained in the Scriptures). The Baptist interpretation and application of the Regulative Principle of Worship ("whatever is not commanded is forbidden")
necessarily precludes paedobaptism.
-Robin
