You guys are in some serious trouble if this is required for salvation. Your practice of infant baptism has it backwards. In Scripture those that are baptized always believe first. Infants don't have that ability.
***You guys are in some serious trouble if this is required for salvation.***
I think that both Matthew and Saint Augustine had it correct, along with the Church Fathers.
***Your practice of infant baptism has it backwards. In Scripture those that are baptized always believe first. Infants don’t have that ability.***
Let me elaborate a little. Infant baptism is for us a two part deal. Water baptism is done on infants in order to claim that child for Christ and to invite the Holy Spirit to come into him with His Grace in order for that child to develop to the point of maturity in the faith where they can believe and become full Christians.
The next step in the baptismal process is confirmation in which the matured child confirms that baptismal process.
An adult is baptized and confirmed in one step.