07-False Argument 2

Infant Baptisers Claim that the Abrahamic Covenant Applies to Believers and Their Children

In addition to their mistaken view of 1 Corinthians 7:14, infant baptisers support their practice of infant baptism by arguments based on the Old Testament Abrahamic covenant, those promises which God made to Abraham concerning his physical seed. They apply these promises to the church, by which they mean believers and their children. In this way, the circumcision of Israelite boys comes to be replaced by the baptism of infants who are born in families where the father or the mother, or both, are Christians (or nominally so). The promises of the Abrahamic covenant are applied to such children