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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: one Lord one faith one baptism

Don’t confuse them with OT typology.


723 posted on 06/12/2012 5:09:50 PM PDT by Jvette
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism; Jvette; count-your-change; Iscool
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?

Two different things. Here's Colossians 2:11-12

In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

But why stop there? What does Paul continue to say?

When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins (Col. 2:13)

What was that? "A circumcision made without hands"????!!!! How can someone being water baptized be the same thing as this? It is "without hands" in other words, a SPIRITUAL thing. How? BY FAITH. And the "uncircumcision of our SINFUL NATURE"? God made us alive through faith in Christ. Then look what Paul says in Romans:

No, a man is a Jew if he is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man's praise is not from men, but from God. (Romans 2:29)

How can anyone possibly think that Paul was in any way talking about something that is done to babies? Y'all can go ahead and believe that - and I fully understand that you sorta HAVE to seeing that's what your Catholic religion commands of you - but I choose to stick with what the word of God says.

There's one more thing...no matter what WE think about this subject of infant baptism, it does not change the fact that we are saved by faith in Jesus Christ by the grace of God Almighty. That is not something any religion can take away from a person. We are held by God, in His hands, never to be cast away, lost, plucked out of or given up. One day we will know as we are known and this particular issue will be seen as a silly distraction from what really matters.

732 posted on 06/12/2012 6:43:38 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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