The Proper Recipients of Baptism – Part 2

Ezekiel 37:15-26, Mark 10:13-16

1.      Why do we find no disputes arising in the early church among Jewish believers regarding the exclusion of their male children from being given the sign and seal of the covenant?

2.      When did the first group of any significance arise in church history which objected to the practice of baptizing the infants of believers? Cite positive evidence that the baptism of infants of believers was virtually the universal practice in the church until the early sixteenth century.

3.      How are we to answer he objection that the practice of baptizing the infants of believers is a vestige of Roman Catholicism remaining in some Protestant branches of the church?

4.      What biblical evidence refutes the notion that, if children of professing believers are given the sign and seal of covenant membership, they will never be encouraged believe for themselves?

5.      Who should not receive the covenant sign and seal of baptism? Why not?