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at solomedia.org slash offers that solomedia.org forward slash offers. When I first became a Christian,

I began attending a Baptist church. I assumed then that the only people who believed in infant baptism

were Roman Catholics and that the Protestant Reformation came along and everyone started to read the Bible again,

and because of that, old-timey traditions that didn't have any biblical support like infant baptism got abandoned.

The more I studied church history, the more I realized that that wasn't how things went,

and the more I studied the Bible, the more I came to believe that the scriptures don't just allow for infant baptism, but necessitate it.

Here's my journey towards infant baptism.

So as I began studying this issue more, there were two big shifts that happened early on that

helped me to understand the proper way to approach this question. The first one had to do with

the nature of baptism, and the second had to do with the burden of proof. First, I had always

been taught that baptism was fundamentally something an individual did

in order to say something to the world. It's an outward sign of my inward faith, a way of telling the

world that I'm committed to following Jesus. And if that's all baptism is, my proclamation to the

world, then it makes sense that a baby shouldn't be baptized. After all, a baby can't speak and hasn't chosen

to follow Jesus. The more I study the Bible, though, the more I realize that this way of thinking

misunderstands the nature of baptism. In scripture, baptism isn't a work that I do, but the sign and

seal of something God does. God himself is the baptizer, and men and women, regardless

of age, are the objects of his promises and the recipients of his grace. This was helpful for me,

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