To: AMMON-CENTRIST
Baptism of babies is false. Babies have no idea who God is.I beg to differ. You say that "babies have no idea who God is" because you base it on your concept of knowledge. Do you agree that the only way that you or I "know" God is by His grace and not of our own doing? Assuming that you do agree, can you still argue that a baby is incapable of receiving the same? It is a mistake to determine what can and can't be based on limited human understanding. It is perfectly natural for a believer to realize that baptism of an infant is as valid as any other baptism. It is God's baptism and is not restricted by any rules or arbitrary ages we decide upon.
To: Southflanknorthpawsis
Keep in mind in several places Scriptural writers record how from the very womb, they were saved. The idea that somehow salvation or baptism has to be associated with our undertsanding of when people can learn things is garbage.
To: Southflanknorthpawsis
I beg to differ. You say that "babies have no idea who God is" because you base it on your concept of knowledge. Do you agree that the only way that you or I "know" God is by His grace and not of our own doing? Assuming that you do agree, can you still argue that a baby is incapable of receiving the same? It is a mistake to determine what can and can't be based on limited human understanding. It is perfectly natural for a believer to realize that baptism of an infant is as valid as any other baptism. It is God's baptism and is not restricted by any rules or arbitrary ages we decide upon.There is no evidence of infant baptism in scripture. Scripture says "REPENT and be baptised" an infant can not repent.
To believe that sprinkling water on an unknowing ,uncooperative infant is of any spiritual effect to that infant is superstition and nothing more.
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