The Magisterial Protestant

The Problem of evil is by far the main reason why people reject the existence of the Christian God. The Logical problem is stated by the philosopher Epicurus as follows:  Premise 1, A good God would want to prevent Evil.  Premise 2, A Omnipotent God would be able to stop Evil.  Premise 3, an omniscient God would be aware of evil.  Premise 4, Evil still exists.  Conclusion: therefore an omnipotent, omniscient and good God cannot exist.  This argument states that if a God possessing the qualities of the Christian God particularly Goodness, omnipotence and omniscience exists then this God would want to stop evil because he is good, be able to stop evil because he is all powerful and is aware of all evil because he is omniscient. therefore evil should be impossible in any world this God creates yet evil prevails in the world He created. Therefore it is a logical contradiction for a God with such qualities to exist in our world. This is a valid argument meaning ...

Due to the Bible being silent on infant baptism, Credo Baptist have to argue from narrative, not instruction. It is a well established fact that baptism is the new circumcision, that is baptism is the sign of the new covenant and circumcision was the sign of the Old covenant. This is stated explicitly by Paul in  Colossians 2:  11-12 where he refers to Baptism as the "circumcision of Christ". Paul also tells the Galatians that they no longer need to receive circumcision. Now  lets look at the cases whereby someone would receive circumcision. Case 1: They become Jewish. If one wished to become Jewish or join the Jewish people they had to be circumcised. One would have to essentially need to convert to Judaism first which requires a profession of faith and him and his household will be circumcised. Case 2: One needs to be born to Jewish parents and they would be circumcised at 8 days. There is a Case 3 but we will get to that later. Now all comprehensive examples of T...