Why Infant baptism?
Consider Abraham: “He believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Understand then that those who believe are children of Abraham. The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.” So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith. (Galatians 3:6-9 [Read in new window]) We can identify at least three blessings that we receive “along with” Abraham • The Gift of Righteousness. God “announced [or preached] the Gospel in advance to Abraham”. Jesus tells us that “Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day: he saw it and was glad” (John 8: 56). We are not able to read in Genesis details of the gospel message preached to Abraham, or his response to it. Yet it must be true that Abraham was awakened to see that he was a sinner and could not save himself from the judgement that he justly deserved. He saw enough to make him “glad”. Today, we look
