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?
Is the pastor a third office in addition to elder and deacon? Or is the pastor an elder who has the special task of teaching and preaching in addition to ruling?
Solomon’s request for a “hearing heart” was not a request to magically become some kind of insightful sage, but for ears to hear the word of God, for a heart that absorbs its specific content, and acts accordingly.
At root, Rachel Green Miller is an egalitarian. While she may affirm that only men can be pastors and give lip service to male headship in the home, she is sowing the seeds of feminism.
If we reject the radical two kingdoms position and instead seek to apply the Bible to all of life, including the civil sphere, we will be in a much better place.
I am going to suggest in this article that there is actually very good reason to think that ultimately there will be a greater number who find life in Christ than who are cast away.
