Why emphasize the profession of faith?
This question is important because in our day there are many children of the church who never confess their faith in Christ. It is as if they were Christianized as children, making it seem that they do not need the second part of professing their own faith before many witnesses. It is at this point that the immersionists tell us that infant baptism has lost its validity — because it does not come to fulfillment in confession of a personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. And, clearly, in the New Testament salvation is received by faith, confessed with the lips, that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. Why emphasize the confession of faith? a. Because the child has the duty and right to freely seek the benefits of his or her baptism, and appropriate them to his or her own life. b. Because this gives the person baptized as an infant the option to say no or to personally appropriate the promise it gives the person a choice. Of course, we know that it is by Gods election and through the g
