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To: Jvette
“We have Scripture of Jesus with children,”

And with adults and so what does that have to do with infant/adult baptism?

“And what do you make of this verse?”

I would ask the question above, What does Luke 1:44 have to with baptism?

“What does Paul mean here?

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
—Ephesians 6:1-3”

I think he's instructing children to obey their parents. He was giving counsel in the fifth and sixth chapters to wives, husbands, children, slaves, masters and others unspecified.

All fine Scriptures to be sure.

700 posted on 06/12/2012 2:18:58 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change; Jvette

Circumcision is the OT type of Baptism, as Paul explains in Colossians 2:11-12.

now, were babies circumcised in the OT, YES OR NO?


708 posted on 06/12/2012 4:07:30 PM PDT by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: count-your-change

****obey your parents in the Lord****

Is that a phrase ever found in Scripture before? Why does Paul phrase it this way, rather than just, obey your parents?

*****And with adults and so what does that have to do with infant/adult baptism?*****

Nothing if one obstinately refuses to see the connection between the fact that children were brought to Jesus and Scripture is not specific about what were their ages.

And we see that Jesus laid His hands upon them and said “Let them come to me. Do not hinder them.”

Children were a part of Jesus’ ministry, their parents brought them to Him and when the parents “household” heard and believed, the parents would have spoken for and acted for their children, because that is what parents do.


716 posted on 06/12/2012 4:29:42 PM PDT by Jvette
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