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To: daniel1212; LeoMcNeil; All
...instead it can give them a false confidence that they are already children of God.

Daniel, please don't pretend that you are not aware that this doesn't run both ways.

Your comment reflects how we could probably go to a fair # of Midwestern states and see baptized-as-infants living as if they were anything but baptized children of God.

And then I would promptly escort you to many a small town in the South...where perhaps 95% to 100% (well...maybe less these days)...but 25 years ago 95 to 100%...of the townsfolk have "made decisions for Christ" -- many of them perhaps MULTIPLE "decisions for Christ"

And then we could walk all around the bars or perhaps a strip joint on the edge of town that might also cater to truckers...and you'd see plenty of past "decision for Christ" men!

Infant baptism is no special "false confidence" issue -- anymore than what some phrase somebody has mouthed at some point in the past.

It goes both ways...and to somehow pretend it doesn't isn't very forthcoming on this subject.

45 posted on 02/27/2015 2:33:31 AM PST by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian
Infant baptism is no special "false confidence" issue -- anymore than what some phrase somebody has mouthed at some point in the past. It goes both ways...and to somehow pretend it doesn't isn't very forthcoming on this subject.

True indeed, and there was not pretending that the latter was not a problem, while the point is that both are wrong. Glad you agree.

54 posted on 02/28/2015 9:56:02 AM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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