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| | This practice of infant baptism together with all elements of [[apostolic tradition]] not found explicitly taught by the Bible alone according to the Reformation principle of ''[[sola scriptura]]'' is unequivocably condemned as a Catholic doctrine, and therefore as being manifestly a [[satan]]ic lie promulgated and promoted by the [[Antichrist]], most evidently evil and obviously destructive to anyone with eyes to see, a deceptive doctrine of devils straight out of the pits of hell.<ref>[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+4%3A1&version=NRSVCE 1 Timothy 4:1]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+1%3A6-9&version=NRSVCE Galatians 1:6-9]. See [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jude+1%3A17-19&version=NRSVCE Jude 17-19]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Peter+2%3A9-11&version=NRSVCE 2 Peter 2:9-11]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Peter+3%3A15-18&version=NRSVCE 3:15-18]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+2%3A18-19&version=NRSVCE 1 John 2:18-19].</ref> This warning clearly condemns to hell all who accept infant baptism as necessary: all of mainstream Christianity, Catholics, Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, and among Protestants, several denominations: Anglicans, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and other Reformed denominations, Presbyterians, Methodists, some Nazarenes, and the Moravian Church. | | This practice of infant baptism together with all elements of [[apostolic tradition]] not found explicitly taught by the Bible alone according to the Reformation principle of ''[[sola scriptura]]'' is unequivocably condemned as a Catholic doctrine, and therefore as being manifestly a [[satan]]ic lie promulgated and promoted by the [[Antichrist]], most evidently evil and obviously destructive to anyone with eyes to see, a deceptive doctrine of devils straight out of the pits of hell.<ref>[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+4%3A1&version=NRSVCE 1 Timothy 4:1]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+1%3A6-9&version=NRSVCE Galatians 1:6-9]. See [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jude+1%3A17-19&version=NRSVCE Jude 17-19]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Peter+2%3A9-11&version=NRSVCE 2 Peter 2:9-11]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Peter+3%3A15-18&version=NRSVCE 3:15-18]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+2%3A18-19&version=NRSVCE 1 John 2:18-19].</ref> This warning clearly condemns to hell all who accept infant baptism as necessary: all of mainstream Christianity, Catholics, Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, and among Protestants, several denominations: Anglicans, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and other Reformed denominations, Presbyterians, Methodists, some Nazarenes, and the Moravian Church. |
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| − | In 1852, Robert Boyt C. Howell wrote a paper he delivered to the Southern Baptist Publication Society in which he set forth in several chapters the following arguments against infant baptism: <ref>[http://www.reformedreader.org/history/howell/evilsofinfantbaptismtoc.htm The Evils of Infant Baptism, By Robert Boyt C. Howell, Charleston, SC: Southern Baptist Publication Society 1852.] </ref> | + | In 1852, Robert Boyt C. Howell wrote a paper he delivered to the Southern Baptist Publication Society "The Evils of Infant Baptism" in which he set forth in nineteen chapters the following arguments against infant baptism: <ref>[http://www.reformedreader.org/history/howell/evilsofinfantbaptismtoc.htm The Evils of Infant Baptism, By Robert Boyt C. Howell, Charleston, SC: Southern Baptist Publication Society 1852.] </ref> |
| | + | CHAPTER 1<br> |
| | + | Infant baptism is an evil because its practice is unsupported by the word of God |
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| | + | CHAPTER 2<br> |
| | + | Infant baptism is an evil because its defense leads to most injurious perversions of Scripture |
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| | + | CHAPTER 3<br> |
| | + | Infant baptism is an evil because it engrafts Judaism upon the gospel of Christ |
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| | + | CHAPTER 4<br> |
| | + | Infant baptism is an evil because it falsifies the doctrine of universal depravity |
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| | + | CHAPTER 5<br> |
| | + | Infant baptism is an evil because the doctrines upon which it is predicated contradict the great fundamental principle of justification by faith |
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| | + | CHAPTER 6<br> |
| | + | Infant baptism is an evil because it is in direct conflict with the doctrine of the work of the Holy Spirit in regeneration |
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| | + | CHAPTER 7<br> |
| | + | Infant baptism is an evil because it despoils the church of those peculiar qualities which are essential to the church of Christ |
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| | + | CHAPTER 8<br> |
| | + | Infant baptism is an evil because its practice perpetuates the superstitions that originally produced it |
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| | + | CHAPTER 9<br> |
| | + | Infant baptism is an evil because it subverts the scripture doctrine of infant salvation |
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| | + | CHAPTER 10<br> |
| | + | Infant baptism is an evil because it leads its advocates into rebellion against the authority of Christ |
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| | + | CHAPTER 11<br> |
| | + | Infant baptism is an evil because of the connection it assumes with the moral and religious training of children |
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| | + | CHAPTER 12<br> |
| | + | Infant baptism is an evil because it is the grand foundation upon which rests the union of church and state |
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| | + | CHAPTER 13<br> |
| | + | Infant baptism is an evil because it leads to religious persecutions |
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| | + | CHAPTER 14<br> |
| | + | Infant baptism is an evil because it is contrary to the principles of civil and religious freedom |
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| | + | CHAPTER 15<br> |
| | + | Infant baptism is an evil because it enfeebles the power of the church to combat error |
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| | + | CHAPTER 16<br> |
| | + | Infant baptism is an evil because it injures the credit of religion with reflecting men of the world |
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| | + | CHAPTER 17<br> |
| | + | Infant baptism is an evil because it is the great barrier to Christian union |
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| | + | CHAPTER 18<br> |
| | + | Infant baptism is an evil because it prevents the salutary impression which baptism was designed to make upon the minds both of those who receive it, and of those who witness its administration |
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| | + | CHAPTER 19<br> |
| | + | Infant baptism is an evil because it retards the designs of Christ in the conversion of the world |
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| | + | CONCLUSION |
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| | ==See also== | | ==See also== |