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Blade,

Even if that were true, which I would strongly argue it is not, that Baptists should not be pastors, just think what the history of the Christian Church would look like if there were not any Calvinistic Baptist pastors.

Secondly, I have not been able to find anything in Scripture, particularly in the Pastoral Epistles, e.g., 1 and 2 Timothy or Titus, where the qualifications for pastor/teacher demand that a man be a paedobaptist. [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/wink.gif" alt="wink" title="wink[/img] Could it be that those who hold so stringently to the doctrine of baptism, on BOTH sides, are putting far too much emphasis and importance on baptism than is Scripturally warranted? In my own mind, the differences between the positions of credo-baptists and paedo-baptists are worthy of notice. However, I do not believe that they are of such importance that they warrant the gulf that has emerged over the years and separated the two camps which presently exist. As Tom pointed out and which I too have also said previously, regardless of one's position on the doctrine of baptism, one would be hard-pressed to find many men, especially pastors, who could stand with a man such as Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

In His Grace,