08-False Argument 3

Argument 3
Infant Baptisers Claim that the Church Is
the Same in Both Testaments

This is a third way in which infant baptisers try to support their
practice, and it is closely allied to their flawed view of the covenant
arising out of their mistake over the continuity/discontinuity of the
Testaments.1 Contending that the church is the same in both
Testaments, they consequently argue that what circumcision was in the
Old Testament, baptism is in the New. Baptism, they say, has replaced
circumcision. That being so, they go on to argue that since infants
were circumcised in the Old Testament church, as they put it, infants
ought to be baptised in the New Testament church.