[Iscool]

The Catholic Church fathers were inspired by God???

[Colofornian]

(Just shows seamless transitions on most areas...for example, Origen's father, grandfather, & great-grandfather were all Christians...His stuff was written less than 150 years after the apostle John died...that which was written by Justin Martyr was only 60 years...Irenaeus just 80 years...and they all wrote about infant baptism)

A FReeper posted this tidbit on a website last week:

William Webster, a former Catholic turned Evangelical, in his 1995 book The Church of Rome at the Bar of History, freely admits the unanimous position of the Church Fathers as to what is called “baptismal regeneration”:
“The doctrine of baptism is one of the few teachings within Roman Catholicism for which it can be said that there is a universal consent of the Fathers....From the early days of the Church, baptism was universally perceived as the means of receiving four basic gifts: the remission of sins, deliverance from death, regeneration, and the bestowal of the Holy Spirit.”(Webster, page 95-96)