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To: NKP_Vet

Sprinkling some water on a baby is absolutely meaningless. An infant is not capable of sin. Catholics also have it wrong on being born again. When a person is old enough to decide on his or her own, they accept Jesus Christ as their personal lord and savior. Forcing a 10 year old into communion is meaningless when the child has no idea what is going on. But, I don’t expect catholics to ever understand. They’re too wrapped up in meaningless (to God) acts that have no bearing on how one achieves true salvation.


4 posted on 08/16/2018 9:07:40 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: AlaskaErik

The wages of sin is death (mortality).

An infant is mortal.

Thus an infant is sinful.

You confuse sinfulness, a state of being, with a sin, a specific act.

“For all have sinned...” That is pretty encompassing, including those who die in the womb, or after birth.

All are conceived in a state of sin - Original Sin: spiritual separation from God that requires supernatural intercessation to ameliorate.

All. Not some. Not those after an arbitrary so-called age of accountability.

The validity and efficacy of infant baptism - not the same thing, by the bye - is an entirely legitimate debate among well-meaning Christians, but it must not be conflated with the more basic, vital issue.

The sinful state - physical mortality and spiritual separation as a result of the Fall - of an infant is inarguable; to assert otherwise is heresy.


57 posted on 08/17/2018 3:27:43 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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