Well, it's been a while since I have been on here, but this thread peaked my interest. Good to see Pilgrim and Tom still posting away :-).
I am a Credobaptist that is calvinistic soteriologically (TULIPian). I guess it is safe to say that I'm not reformed in the strictest sense. I don't know if Pilgrim will remember (we have known each other for about 15 years on here and he is older tham me, hehe), but years ago he once called me a "dispy-lite" which is probably pretty accurate, LOL. I have had deeper thinkers than I say that I am CT. However, I personally believe that Paedo CT's have the burden of proving scripturally that circumcision for 8 day old boys was changed to baptism of infant boys and girls, and that such passages as Acts 2:37-41 and Col.2:11-13 fail to do that. I also think that paedobaptism is inconsistent with the regulative principle of worship, but maybe that's just me :-).
Having said all of that however, I have also been told that I'm not a true Baptist for two main reasons. First, because while it is still different than the Presbyterian scheme with the Sessions, we do hold to a plurality of elders appointed, on a local church level. Second, I do not find any scriptural basis for saying that immersion as a believer is a prerequisite for being a member of a local church, but justification by faith only. So at the two church starts I serve the Lord as an elder at, we will receive paedobaptists if they we willing to tolerate the credobaptist teaching when it comes up in the text in book/chapter/verse by verse preaching, and not undermine the elders by teaching against the credobaptist view.
When I served the Lord as pastor/elder at a church in SW Idaho, there were two men that were paedobaptist when they first attended and became members. Both men came to me and asked to be immersed as believers and we complied ;-).
I agree with Pilgrim about debating the difference. I have seen and heard of Christians changing baptism views in both directions as a result of personal study, but I have never heard of them changing as a result of a debate.
Speaking of debates, there is also a good one between James White and Bill Schisko. I don't have the direct link, but it should be on White's Alpha and Omega website at
www.aomin.org.Blessings and Soli Deo Gloria
