In this light, to think that a major people group—infants—is excluded from entry into the new-covenant community seems to go against the grain of the otherwise wider span of the NT’s inclusiveness of blessing. It is important to recall that even the baptism on condition of profession is a covenantal sign proleptically connoting both blessing and judgment, and that it is a person’s perseverance that becomes decisive for whether the blessing or the curse is applied. Thus, infants are considered not definitively ‘saved’ by baptism, but rather to be entering into the sphere where blessings or curses can come upon them depending on their response to the revelation of the covenant church community in which they grow up.
Please submit corrections, feedback, or information as to where the text of this q can be found.