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To: Cronos
In your zeal to switch topics ... you accidentally provided evidence that the early church did not teach infant baptism.

But before the baptism let the baptizer fast, and the baptized, and whoever else can; but you shall order the baptized to fast one or two days before.

How would an infant child obey the command to fast one or two days?

My point all along is that the early church fathers present neither a complete nor uniform systematic theology ... and the tendency of theologians within your persuasion is to pick and choose that which supports doctrine not clearly spelled out in the New Testament; using the "sacred tradition" card as justification.

137 posted on 06/15/2011 8:07:49 AM PDT by dartuser ("Dealing with preterists is like cleaning the litter box ... but at least none of the cats are big.")
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To: dartuser
firstly, it says you shall order, secondly, infant baptism is not doctrine, but baptism for the Remission of sins and Baptism in the proper Trinitarian method IS doctrine

you want to baptise your young later, ok -- but the problem is that you don't believe that Baptism is for the remission of sins, do you?

139 posted on 06/15/2011 8:22:01 AM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie.)
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