Westminster Catechism “Question 95- To whom is baptism to be administered?”
“Answer 95- Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible church, till they profess their faith in Christ, and obedience to him; but the infants of such as are members of the visible church are to be baptized.”
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Pedobaptism (from the Greek paido meaning “child”) otherwise known as Infant Baptism.
-John Calvin called pedobaptism a diviine institution
- Martin Luther said that infant baptism was justifiable because babies have "hidden faith," just as a believing adult is also a Christian even while he is asleep.
-Around 1524 at the instigation of Zwinglli the Zürich council ordered all unbaptized babies to be baptized within eight days.
-March 7, 1526, the Zürich council again sided with Zwingli and passed an edict making adult baptism punishable by drowning.
- 1648 in Protestant England an Act of Paarliament made a rejection on infant baptism punishable by death.
Credobaptism (from the Latin credo meaning “I believe”) otherwise known as Believers Baptism.
- Given to persons who have reached the aage of accountability or reason who have made a declaration of their personal faith in Jesus Christ as their Savior.
-Conrad Grebel said baptism of infants annd forced baptism of adults were both invalid; everyone who joined his church had to be re-baptised to make sure it was done right.
- Huldrych Zwingli dubbed them “Anabaptissts” (rebaptizers) because they insisted on the rebaptism of those baptized as infants.
Interestingly enough “Anabaptists” never considered that any rebaptism took place since they refuted the entire concept of infant baptism to begin with.
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