Critical Issues Commentary | Infant Baptism and the Institutional Church Part 2 @CICministry | Uploaded September 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
The next issue is then whether the church is a living organism, attached to Christ as the head, or if it is a self-perpetuating institution. Not only infant baptism, but many other means of keeping the descendants of Christians in the church for multiple generations have been devised in church history. The sorry result is institutional Christianity that often has no gospel and no life of the Holy Spirit. Many times the institutional church holds to the same pagan teachings as the world. We provide many examples. The church does not grow and exist through natural generation, but through supernatural regeneration. This implications of this are numerous and profound.
The next issue is then whether the church is a living organism, attached to Christ as the head, or if it is a self-perpetuating institution. Not only infant baptism, but many other means of keeping the descendants of Christians in the church for multiple generations have been devised in church history. The sorry result is institutional Christianity that often has no gospel and no life of the Holy Spirit. Many times the institutional church holds to the same pagan teachings as the world. We provide many examples. The church does not grow and exist through natural generation, but through supernatural regeneration. This implications of this are numerous and profound.
