IS IT THE CHILDREN'S BAPTISM ...?
2 The categorical answer to this question is: YES. Of course, that the adults' baptism is obviously Biblical. For what, in what to the respecta, we do not have to prove anything. The same does not happen with the infantile baptism or of children. But, which is not so obvious, does not mean that it is not probable. It is very common in our days to do DNA tests to demonstrate the parenthood of creatures, which, on having been born, do not bring a stamp in the forehead with the name of the father, but a scientific examination can demonstrate to whom his parenthood corresponds. The same happens with the infantile baptism; the only thing, that in this case we cannot be in charge to him to do a DNA. The test here is that to be Biblical. And this leads us immediately to establishing like authority, the only base of faith and obedience of the Christian: The Sacred Writing. Nevertheless, it is necessary to clarify, that we understand, that the God's Word comprises both the Ancient one and the New Testament. And that both testaments constitute a historical and progressive revelation, and therefore, a unit without errors or contradictions, since “the whole Writing is inspired by God” (2 Timoteo 3:16). The next thing to facilitate the discussion of this topic is to clear the way of some prejudices or erroneous ideas:
Machen and the OPC
Machen and the OPC D. G. Hart J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937) was the principal figure in the foundation of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, not for another reason that was not the Presbyterian controversy in which he had a crucial performance that culminated in the beginning of the denomination in 1936. Mahen, a distinguished scholar of the New Testament in the Seminar Princeton from 1906 until 1929, defended the historical reliability of the Bible in such works like The Origin of Paul's Religion (The Origin of Pablo's Religion - 1921) and The Virgin Birth of Christ (The Virginal Birth of Christ - 1930). Did it emerge like the principal spokesman of the Presbyterian conservatives doing devastating criticism of the modernist Protestants in his well-known books Christianity and Liberalism (Christendom and Liberalism - 1923) and What is Faith? (What is faith? - 1925).