Baptizing Babies in the Early Church

Infant baptism appears to be becoming more and more controversial as time goes on. In the sixteenth century, when the first Anabaptists rejected the baptism they had received as infants and were baptized as intellectually mature believers, there were few in the world who would have looked fondly upon their bold move; infant baptism was…

Do All Church Practices Have to Come Right from the Bible?

In some important ongoing debates within Christianity, I often hear people, especially of the evangelical stream, declare a particular idea or practice to be unbiblical because it is not clearly commanded or portrayed in the Bible. For example, many advocates of believer's baptism are quick to point out that infant baptism is never mentioned in…