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We can't automatically extend every promise given to the apostles.

Why not? Or more precisely, which promises are extended and which are not? By what authority do you make such a pronouncement?

Good questions. Two simple thoughts:
We aren't the apostles, and the apostles may have received special priveleges.
We are Christians, i.e., disciples of Christ, and as such, any promises and instructions directed to disciples is directed to us as well. So, indeed, which is when?

So, Matt 28:19 instructs them to baptize. Is that just the apostles, or all disciples?
Mark 16:17 "And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
18 they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well."
Luke 22:29 "And I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me,
30 so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."

Hey, no one said this was going to be easy.

The simple answer, on what authority, is other scripture. When the whole of scripture is studied, and the difficult passages worked out against each other, basing interpretation of the foundation that the Bible is inerrant, these issues work out rather nicely.

I leave the proof of that statement to the serious student of God's Word.

The simple answer, on what authority, is other scripture. When the whole of scripture is studied, and the difficult passages worked out against each other, basing interpretation of the foundation that the Bible is inerrant, these issues work out rather nicely.

Then why do some Protestants, basing their belief on the Bible alone, accept infant baptism, and other Protestants, basing their belief on the Bible alone, reject it?