Is infant baptism biblical? How long has the church practiced baptizing babies? Can we trust the church and theologians before us on this particular matter?

I'll be discussing all this and more coming up right now.

Welcome to Real Christianity. My name is Pastor Dale Partridge. This is part nine of our 12-parts series titled Welcome to Reform Theology, where I'm taking our congregation at Kingsway Reform Church in Prescott, Arizona, through the fundamentals of reform doctrine. In this session, I offer part one of a two-part series on infant baptism.

Today we'll focus on both the need for unity and submission to historic doctrine and a historical survey of infant baptism.

If you're interested, I've also offered a three-part lecture series on the biblical basis for infant baptism that's available in the ReLearn app. That series covers a systematic argument. It also addresses concerns with Jeremiah 31,

and it also discusses the modes of baptism, including immersion, pouring, and sprinkling.

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devices. Start your family's free trial at relearn.org. Again, that's relearn.org. This is going to be a history of infant baptism or a history of covenant baptism.

That's another way that we can label this.

So one of the weaknesses of Protestantism is that it places the ultimate interpretation of

Scripture in the hands of the individual.

Okay, that is a known weakness.

It was one of the concerns that the Rome had regarding the Protestant Reformation

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