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To: stfassisi

Can you cite anywhere in the N.T. that speaks of infant baptism?


2,351 posted on 07/01/2010 2:22:32 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change
Can you cite anywhere in the N.T. that speaks of infant baptism?

Can you cite anywhere in the N.T that says Baptism is limited to adults ONLY and says never to Baptize infants?

Don't bother quoting me from the error filled KJV's or NIV's.

Infant Baptism was Christianity 101 to the early Christian's.It's much like the Trinity that is not spelled out EXPLICITLY in Scriptures. It was a given because the early Christians taught it EXPLICITLY through Apostolic Tradition and we see it in the ECF's writings

Examples...

Our teacher of these things is Jesus Christ, who also was born for this purpose, and was crucified under Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea, in the times of Tiberius Caesar; and that we reasonably worship Him, having learned that He is the Son of the true God Himself, and holding Him in the second place, and the prophetic Spirit in the third, we will prove." Justin Martyr, First Apology, 13 (A.D. 155).

"[T]he statements made regarding Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are to be understood as transcending all time, all ages, and all eternity. For it is the Trinity alone which exceeds the comprehension not only of temporal but even of eternal intelligence; while other things which are not included in it are to be measured by times and ages." Origen, First Principles, 4:28 (A.D. 230).

2,354 posted on 07/01/2010 4:37:12 PM PDT by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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