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To: metmom

Well in Acts whole households got baptized and that includes babies.


238 posted on 04/28/2014 5:26:11 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: Biggirl

Where does it say *babies*?


240 posted on 04/28/2014 5:30:07 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: Biggirl
Well in Acts whole households got baptized and that includes babies.

You are making that up...The bible says nothing in Acts or anywhere else that babies are baptized...

If my household got baptized (again), no babies would be baptized...

260 posted on 04/28/2014 3:40:51 PM PDT by Iscool (Ya mess with me, you mess with the WHOLE trailer park...)
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To: Biggirl; metmom; Iscool

We have to be careful to look at all passages that are relevant to a question. The Lord didn’t make His Bible like a rule book or book of law, in which case it would be like the IRS tax code or a legal contract to read. All passages on who can be a believer suggest the person has to be old enough to repent and believe. Just in Pakistan there was a baby charged with murder, and the charges were dropped, I believe, after international attention was brought to it.

Another example of the need to read this way (and there are many more like it) is Matthew 23:9: “You must call no one on earth your father...”- Jesus (Catholic Bible). (Cont’d)


266 posted on 04/28/2014 5:19:08 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
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To: Biggirl; metmom; Iscool

When looking at the passage in Acts, the Gospel was also preached to the jailer’s household. And, if infants and children below a certain age or understanding wouldn’t have been considered old enough to repent and believe, then they simply wouldn’t have been included in the “whole household.” Another thought to consider, too, when the phrase, “and your children” was included, is the idea of age and eldership in older societies. Most societies up until now have respected age, and the elders would be first addressed. That could figure into that passage, too.


269 posted on 04/28/2014 5:29:44 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
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