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To: imardmd1
One corruption of all of those religionists was subscribing to the Roman-innnovated “baptism” of unqualified, irresponsible, unbelieving, unregenerated infants

You mean infants who haven't earned the right to salvation by working for it? Oh, perish the thought that God would save the unworthy and freely justify the unjust through grace ... appalling! Scandalous! For as Paul says somewhere, "If you haven't worked for it, it's not grace." /s

BTW, no matter what else you say about it, it's definitely not true that infant baptism is "Roman-innovated". Justin Martyr says that there were old women living in his day who had been baptized by the apostles -- he wrote around AD 150. Origen says that the church received the custom of baptizing infants from the Apostles.

The Armenian and Ethiopian churches, who were never obedient to Rome or Constantinople nor under the Roman yoke politically, both baptize infants.

34 posted on 11/06/2011 4:56:41 AM PST by Campion ("It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins." -- Franklin)
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To: Campion

Protestants act like bitter children when it comes to their anti-Roman polemics, which causes them to forget what the separated Eastern Churches share in common with Rome doctrinally despite their separation.


38 posted on 11/06/2011 6:16:02 AM PST by rzman21
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