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To: Salvation

If baptism is the replacement for circumcision, then it should occur after birth - spiritual birth.

You will note circumcision wasn’t meant to make someone a Jew. I was circumcised, but that didn’t make me a Jew. You can baptize an infant, but it won’t make him a believer.

Converts to Judaism were baptized and circumcised - in recognition of their conversion. Not to create a conversion.


138 posted on 07/01/2012 10:15:08 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Liberalism: "Ex faslo quodlibet" - from falseness, anything follows)
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I’m just interesting in the timing of both events.


139 posted on 07/01/2012 10:18:48 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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