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To: Jvette
Sorry, not buying your commentary as neither passage ever says that only adults were baptized. Children do not act for themselves. Parents act and speak for them, and that would include having them baptized.

Only believers get baptized in the scriptures...

Act 8:36 And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
Act 8:37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

There's the criteria for baptism...And no babies are included...

764 posted on 06/13/2012 5:42:20 AM PDT by Iscool (You mess with me, you mess with the WHOLE trailerpark...)
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To: Iscool

I don’t know how much clearer I can put this.....

Just as they do now, parents speak for their children, the children are under the care and protection of the parents and therefore, if the parent and his HOUSEHOLD became Christian, there is NOTHING, not one thing in Scripture that says it was only the adults in the household.

Just as now, if the parent is a believer and goes to church, studies the Scripture and prays, so do the children.

No, Scripture says that ALL in Lydia’s household were baptized. Period, no distinction for age, or adulthood or anything.


779 posted on 06/13/2012 3:07:19 PM PDT by Jvette
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