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To: af_vet_1981
Are you one of those who imagine only Jewish men thirty years of age and older are eligible for baptism ?

No, but I am one who imagines it is impossible for an infant to repent; they have no concept or awareness of sin, and are unable to speak. Thus, to baptize them would not be according to the command of Peter in Acts. (It might also be hard to get them to hold their breath as you put them under the water...)

70 posted on 01/27/2016 10:29:33 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: CA Conservative
No, but I am one who imagines it is impossible for an infant to repent; they have no concept or awareness of sin, and are unable to speak. Thus, to baptize them would not be according to the command of Peter in Acts. (It might also be hard to get them to hold their breath as you put them under the water...)

By that logic no little ones can be saved, since they cannot repent and be baptized. We know that is false though, for it is written:

Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence.

Matthew, Catholic chapter nineteen, Protestant verses thirteen to fifteen,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James

Therefore it follows that if it is not forbidden for parents to bring their little ones to the LORD, and of such is the kingdom of heaven, then it is not forbidden to baptize such little ones. In fact, the one holy catholic apostolic church has been doing that for almost two centuries. The exception to this practice is some of the Catholics who became Protestants and re-formed their own religion, and especially some of those who became protesters of the protesters. Some of them, but by no means all, forbade the little ones from being baptized and established their own tradition of men for that tradition is not in the scriptures.

77 posted on 01/28/2016 5:33:42 AM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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