Blade<br><br>Howard has admitted that he been letting this issue cloud his mind, so much so in fact that even his wife has told him so.<br><br>He has also made some very uncharitable comments about Baptists themselves. It would seem that all this attention he has placed would make Reformed Baptists only marginally Christian.<br>If you think the issue of baby baptism is a black and white issue, you are sadly mistaken. <br>I choose not to get into debates like this, because I am probably not the best person to try and represent the credobaptist side.<br>But I have read quite a bit of information by noted authors from both sides of the equation, to take what I view as the biblical model of baptism. I may be wrong on that and I will continue to study the issue, but regardless of the truth of the matter, to take such an extreme view on the issue, that it divides Christian brothers and sisters, is in my opinion a real shame.<br>Understand, I am not saying that the issue of baptism isn't important, but it isn’t essential to the faith.<br><br>Tom