Is This the Best Argument Against Infant Baptism? | @TruthUnites
Canon & Creed
apologetics
June 5, 2026
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Baptist apologist Gavin Ortlund from @TruthUnites raised a challenge regarding the Reformed practice of infant baptism — seeking to highlight an inconsistency on our part regarding the descendents of Christians, even going so far as to claim numerous Reformed giants, such as John Calvin and Jerome Zanchi, highlight the inconsistency of modern Reformed Christians regarding our present day practice of infant baptism.
But is this true and is Gavin accurate to the sources he appeals to? And did he successfully refute the Reformed understanding of infant baptism?
Video in review: https://youtu.be/JBPMrUV_v4w?si=u68EBPSlMUGIoS5K
Chapters:
0:00 Is Infant Baptism a Gospel Issue?
5:15 Gavin Ortlund’s Argument Against Infant Baptism
10:30 Circumcision and Baptism in Reformed Theology
15:45 The Credobaptist Objection: Too Much Continuity?
21:00 Type and Antitype in Covenant Theology
26:30 Jeremiah 31, Hebrews 8, and the New Covenant
32:00 New Covenant Membership: Inward Reality vs. Outward Administration
37:45 1 Corinthians 10 and New Testament Covenant Warnings
43:15 Does Infant Baptism Require Paedocommunion?
49:00 Why Not Grandchildren? Gavin Ortlund’s Main Argument
54:30 Federal Holiness, 1 Corinthians 7, and Covenant Children
1:00:15 John Calvin, John Knox, and Infant Baptism
1:06:00 Samuel Rutherford and Visible Covenant Membership
1:12:30 Infant Baptism, Bare Genealogy, and Covenant Headship
1:18:15 Is It Safer to Delay Baptism?
1:24:00 Reformed Ecclesiology, Baptist Churches, and the Marks of the Church
1:28:03 Did Gavin Ortlund Refute Infant Baptism?
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