Christ “put off” His body on the cross, in which God “put off” spiritual rulers and in which Christians have “put off” the old unregenerate self and its sinful deeds.
The practice of infant baptism is neither commanded nor prohibited anywhere in Scripture. This issue must therefore be settled by asking a different question—What is the place of children in the church?
While the New Testament is most explicit on the subject of a future bodily resurrection (e.g. 1 Corinthians 15), the Old Testament really lays the groundwork for the New Testament’s teaching.
