Paul baptised whole families, including children. When we look carefully at the teaching of Scripture, we see that the sign of the covenant was applied to infants prior to Christ, and presumably continued to be applied to them when Jesus changed it to baptism. And when we look closely at the household baptisms described in Acts, there can be little doubt but that infants were commonly baptized in the apostolic church. They were baptized then, and they should be baptized now, on the basis of God’s promise to bless the children of believers. The faith of a parent qualifies a child to be baptized and raised as a disciple of Jesus. He welcomed them into his kingdom, and so should we.
Pure conjecture based on nothing...
When we look carefully at the teaching of Scripture, we see that the sign of the covenant was applied to infants prior to Christ, and presumably continued to be applied to them when Jesus changed it to baptism.
Nah, different covenant...Went from the law to simple belief (faith)
And when we look closely at the household baptisms described in Acts, there can be little doubt but that infants were commonly baptized in the apostolic church.
Nope again...Every one of the scriptures that speaks of households being saved had the requirement of repentance for all the household members except one where the issue wasn't discussed...No repentance; no salvation, no baptism...
They were baptized then, and they should be baptized now, on the basis of God’s promise to bless the children of believers. The faith of a parent qualifies a child to be baptized and raised as a disciple of Jesus.
Naw, that's just a result of the ignorance of scripture...Babies can not sin if there is no knowledge of sin in their minds...There is no judgmental sin attributed to babies...That is just a ploy by the Catholic religion to scare Catholics into putting their trust into the Catholic clergy instead of Jesus Christ...Bible calls that bondage...
But I don't mind that you guys believe this junk but what gets me is you try to connect the false teachings of your religion with the bible...You make things up about the scriptures, just as you just did...You add words to make the scripture say things that are not true...
Some Catholic on this thread claimed that the bible says, 'your are Peter and upon you, I will build my church'...That's not scripture...So is that ignorance of scripture or an outright lie???
Dang!
Something ELSE I've missed in the Scriptures!