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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.

119 posted on 10/31/2001 4:30:19 PM PST by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7
To believe that sprinkling water on an unknowing ,uncooperative infant is of any spiritual effect to that infant is superstition and nothing more.

I respectfully disagree but will have to discuss it later since I have to leave. I will simply state that you again are relying on man's limited understanding and concluding what God can and can't do. Again it is God's baptism and His power knows no boundaries.

123 posted on 10/31/2001 4:37:15 PM PST by Southflanknorthpawsis
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To: RnMomof7
To believe that sprinkling water on an unknowing ,uncooperative infant is of any spiritual effect to that infant is superstition and nothing more.

OK, let me call you and raise you: "To believe that sprinkling (or pouring or dunking in) water on anyone is, apart from that person's personal assenting relationship with Christ, of any spiritual effect to that person is superstition and nothing more."

Baptism is valuable ONLY as an outward testimony of an inward transformation theretofore having occurred and nothing more. Period. [And, by the way, there are many ways to give that testimony other than baptism as well.] That's why Christ never baptized anyone.

127 posted on 10/31/2001 4:41:18 PM PST by winstonchurchill
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To: RnMomof7
What do you make of this quote:

"The Church recieved from the Apostles the tradition of giving Baptism even to infants. For the Apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of divine mysteries, knew that there is in everyone the innate stains of sin, which must be washed away through water and the Spirit."-Origen 2nd century

129 posted on 10/31/2001 4:55:03 PM PST by Cap'n Crunch
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