So this source of joy that Jesus gives us, the source of that joy is not simply that there

is a Son of God who has, for some reason, come into the flesh.

Pastor Hans Feeney of Lutheran satire speaking at this year's issues, et cetera, making the

case conference.

The great source of joy, the source of joy for the Christian, is that the Son of God

came into the flesh for you.

That this very universe was created for you and that when you were lost in its fallenness,

Jesus Christ came into this world, gave up his life upon the cross,

and rose from the grave.

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It is the historic practice of the church.

There's no doubt about that.

It is certainly hinted at in the New Testament when baptism is described as taking place.

Whole households are baptized, and it's hard to imagine a first century household that wouldn't contain an infant or two but people have pointed out well there's no specific time when it says

an infant was baptized does that mean that the church shouldn't have been baptizing infants all these

centuries welcome back to issues ceter i'm todd wilkin joining shouldn't have been baptizing infants all these centuries.

Welcome back to Issues Cedar. I'm Todd Wilkin.

Joining us to discuss evidence for infant baptism in the early church, Dr. Jordan Cooper.

He's executive director of Justin Sinner, professor of systematic theology at American Lutheran Theological Seminary, author of several books, including his latest The Doctrine of God,

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