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To: fortheDeclaration
I believe that the Lord's Supper should be open to all believers.

Open communion? Hmmm... Open to the unbaptized? All those at the Last Supper, including Jesus, were baptized believers.

No Baptist church should state that it acceptable to be baptized in any other manner other then immersion and as an adult, making a profession of faith in Christ.

They really are departing from Baptist tradition otherwise. I do think that teenagers and older children can be saved as well. Babies and tykes? Not really. I think that a saving faith in Christ is not for kids who still believe in the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus.
168 posted on 07/27/2006 4:07:21 AM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: George W. Bush
I believe that the Lord's Supper should be open to all believers. Open communion? Hmmm... Open to the unbaptized? All those at the Last Supper, including Jesus, were baptized believers.

Not exactly, Judas was there also.

No Baptist church should state that it acceptable to be baptized in any other manner other then immersion and as an adult, making a profession of faith in Christ. They really are departing from Baptist tradition otherwise. I do think that teenagers and older children can be saved as well. Babies and tykes? Not really. I think that a saving faith in Christ is not for kids who still believe in the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus.

When someone is old enough to understand his own profession of faith, then he should receive water baptism.

169 posted on 07/27/2006 4:27:23 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth? (Gal.4:16))
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