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The doctrinal stand of the [[Southern Baptist Convention]] (SBC) is strongly opposed to Catholicism. 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>

The doctrinal stand of the [[Southern Baptist Convention]] (SBC) is strongly opposed to Catholicism. 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>

:[http://www.reformedreader.org/history/howell/evilsofinfantbaptismchapter01.htm CHAPTER 1<br>Infant baptism is an evil because its practice is unsupported by the word of God]

Infant baptism is an evil because its practice is unsupported by the word of God

:CHAPTER 2<br>

:[http://www.reformedreader.org/history/howell/evilsofinfantbaptismchapter02.htm CHAPTER 2<br>Infant baptism is an evil because its defense leads to most injurious perversions of Scripture]

Infant baptism is an evil because its defense leads to most injurious perversions of Scripture

:CHAPTER 3<br>

:[http://www.reformedreader.org/history/howell/evilsofinfantbaptismchapter03.htm CHAPTER 3<br>Infant baptism is an evil because it engrafts Judaism upon the gospel of Christ]

Infant baptism is an evil because it engrafts Judaism upon the gospel of Christ

:CHAPTER 4<br>

:[http://www.reformedreader.org/history/howell/evilsofinfantbaptismchapter04.htm CHAPTER 4<br>Infant baptism is an evil because it falsifies the doctrine of universal depravity]

Infant baptism is an evil because it falsifies the doctrine of universal depravity

:CHAPTER 5<br>

:[http://www.reformedreader.org/history/howell/evilsofinfantbaptismchapter015.htm 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]

Infant baptism is an evil because the doctrines upon which it is predicated contradict the great fundamental principle of justification by faith

:CHAPTER 6<br>

:[http://www.reformedreader.org/history/howell/evilsofinfantbaptismchapter06.htm 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]

Infant baptism is an evil because it is in direct conflict with the doctrine of the work of the Holy Spirit in regeneration

:CHAPTER 7<br>

:[http://www.reformedreader.org/history/howell/evilsofinfantbaptismchapter07.htm 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]

Infant baptism is an evil because it despoils the church of those peculiar qualities which are essential to the church of Christ

:CHAPTER 8<br>

:[http://www.reformedreader.org/history/howell/evilsofinfantbaptismchapter08.htm CHAPTER 8<br>Infant baptism is an evil because its practice perpetuates the superstitions that originally produced it]

Infant baptism is an evil because its practice perpetuates the superstitions that originally produced it

:CHAPTER 9<br>

:[http://www.reformedreader.org/history/howell/evilsofinfantbaptismchapter09.htm CHAPTER 9<br>Infant baptism is an evil because it subverts the scripture doctrine of infant salvation]

Infant baptism is an evil because it subverts the scripture doctrine of infant salvation

:CHAPTER 10<br>

:[http://www.reformedreader.org/history/howell/evilsofinfantbaptismchapter10.htm CHAPTER 10<br>Infant baptism is an evil because it leads its advocates into rebellion against the authority of Christ]

Infant baptism is an evil because it leads its advocates into rebellion against the authority of Christ

:CHAPTER 11<br>

:[http://www.reformedreader.org/history/howell/evilsofinfantbaptismchapter11.htm CHAPTER 11<br>Infant baptism is an evil because of the connection it assumes with the moral and religious training of children]

Infant baptism is an evil because of the connection it assumes with the moral and religious training of children

:CHAPTER 12<br>

:[http://www.reformedreader.org/history/howell/evilsofinfantbaptismchapter12.htm CHAPTER 12<br>Infant baptism is an evil because it is the grand foundation upon which rests the union of church and state]

Infant baptism is an evil because it is the grand foundation upon which rests the union of church and state

:CHAPTER 13<br>

:[http://www.reformedreader.org/history/howell/evilsofinfantbaptismchapter13.htm CHAPTER 13<br>Infant baptism is an evil because it leads to religious persecutions]

Infant baptism is an evil because it leads to religious persecutions

:CHAPTER 14<br>

:[http://www.reformedreader.org/history/howell/evilsofinfantbaptismchapter14.htm CHAPTER 14<br>Infant baptism is an evil because it is contrary to the principles of civil and religious freedom]

Infant baptism is an evil because it is contrary to the principles of civil and religious freedom

:CHAPTER 15<br>

:[http://www.reformedreader.org/history/howell/evilsofinfantbaptismchapter15.htm CHAPTER 15<br>Infant baptism is an evil because it enfeebles the power of the church to combat error]

Infant baptism is an evil because it enfeebles the power of the church to combat error

:CHAPTER 16<br>

:[http://www.reformedreader.org/history/howell/evilsofinfantbaptismchapter16.htm CHAPTER 16<br>Infant baptism is an evil because it injures the credit of religion with reflecting men of the world]

Infant baptism is an evil because it injures the credit of religion with reflecting men of the world

:CHAPTER 17<br>

:[http://www.reformedreader.org/history/howell/evilsofinfantbaptismchapter17.htm CHAPTER 17<br>Infant baptism is an evil because it is the great barrier to Christian union]

Infant baptism is an evil because it is the great barrier to Christian union

:CHAPTER 18<br>

:[http://www.reformedreader.org/history/howell/evilsofinfantbaptismchapter18.htm 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]

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

:CHAPTER 19<br>

:[http://www.reformedreader.org/history/howell/evilsofinfantbaptismchapter19.htm CHAPTER 19<br>Infant baptism is an evil because it retards the designs of Christ in the conversion of the world]

Infant baptism is an evil because it retards the designs of Christ in the conversion of the world

==Where do unbaptized departed infants go?==

==Where do unbaptized departed infants go?==