Def: Credobaptism

Latin, credo “believe”

The belief that baptism should only be administered to those who are believers. According to credobaptists, baptism is a visible outward sign of confession, ordain by Christ in the great commission. Because it is a sign of belief, credobaptist do not practice infant or padeobaptism since an infants cannot believe. While the majority of church history practiced padeobaptism as a sign of the covenant, padeobaptist argue that the baptism of infants is unbiblical sighting examples in Scripture which, according to the credobaptist, limit baptism to believers.

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This is also the view of GracePoint.

From: Theological Word of the Day