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To: George W. Bush
A small point but one that seems to impede Chantry's crediblity.

When discussing Matthew 19:13 Chantry says:

We share the indignation of B. B. Warfield who said, "What has this [verse] to do with infant baptism?"

Either he completely misread Warfield or he is being disingenous by portraying Warfield as indignant. Warfield acknowledges that this verse does not prove infant baptism but goes on to say that nowhere does it disallow infant baptism.

77 posted on 10/07/2001 12:04:40 AM PDT by lockeliberty
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To: lockeliberty
Warfield: "there is no express command to baptize infants in the New Testament, no express record of the baptism of infants and no passage so stringently implying it that we must infer from them that infants were baptized" (cited in Searching Together [Winter Quarter, 1984 – Vol.13:4], p.17).
A little quote from Mr. Warfield.
Charles Spurgeon:

If I thought it wrong to be a Baptist, I should give it up and become what I believed to be right . . . If we could find infant baptism in the Word of God, we would adopt it. It would help us out of a great difficulty, for it would take away from us that reproach which is attached to us – that we are odd and do not do as other people do. But we have looked well through the Bible and cannot find it, and do not believe it is there; nor do we believe that others can find infant baptism in the Scriptures, unless they themselves first put it there (Autobiography).

91 posted on 10/07/2001 6:05:13 AM PDT by George W. Bush
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