Infant Baptism
Quotable Quotes – John MacArthur on Infant Baptism and an Argument From Silence
“Now it is also true that Scripture, they’ll bring this up, they’ll say this: yes it’s not in the Bible, but it’s also true that Scripture nowhere forbids infant baptism [Ed. For an example of this, see John Calvin, Institutes, 4.16.8]. Now if I can get into a debate and we’re going to debate that [...]
Quotable Quotes – Spurgeon on Infant Baptism
“[W]e believe infant sprinkling to be a human and carnal invention, an addition to the Word of God, and therefore wicked and injurious. When we reflect that it is rendered into some thing worse than superstition by being accompanied with falsehood, when children are taught that in their baptism they are made the children of [...]
Quotable Quotes – Schleiermacher on Infant Baptism in the New Testament
“All traces of infant baptism, which have been asserted to be found in the New Testament must first be inserted there.” Friedrich Schleiermacher, quoted in John MacArthur, A Scriptural Critique of Infant Baptism (link)
