Jared Longshore: Pedobaptism is like an ice cream shop

Pedobaptism as an Ice Cream Shop Analogy

Basically, this second position I'm saying views that ice cream is being served up just the same. Christ is being served just the same. The promise of Messiah is there in the Old Testament. Christ himself is being promised in the New Testament, New Covenant times.

Now, you must eat by faith. You must taste and see that he is good. You must trust in the Lord, call upon his name, and when you do, you eat the ice cream. But the second view views the covenant somewhat like an ice cream shop.

So there's ice cream being served up in an ice cream shop, not merely ice cream being served up at an ice cream stand in the street for individuals to eat. Individuals still eat, or they do not eat, and they go to hell.

But when a man calls upon the name of the Lord, his household comes with him into the ice cream shop. His children come with him into the ice cream shop. So he's actually tasting and seeing that the Lord is good, and then his children are marked by covenant.