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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

““But the sacrament of baptism is undoubtedly the sacrament of regenation: Wherefore, as the man who has never lived cannot die, and he who has never died cannot rise again, so he who has never been born cannot be born again. From which the conclusion arises, that no one who has not been born could possibly have been born again in his father. Born again, however, a man must be, after he has been born; because, ‘Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God’ Even an infant, therefore, must be imbued with the sacrament of regeneration, lest without it his would be an unhappy exit out of this life; and this baptism is not administered except for the remission of sins. And so much does Christ show us in this very passage; for when asked, How could such things be? He reminded His questioner of what Moses did when he lifted up the serpent. Inasmuch, then, as infants are by the sacrament of baptism conformed to the death of Christ, it must be admitted that they are also freed from the serpent’s poisonous bite, unless we willfully wander from the rule of the Christian faith. This bite, however, they did not receive in their own actual life, but in him on whom the wound was primarily inflicted.”
(On Forgiveness of Sin, and Baptism, 43:27

I see the misrepresentation of St Augustine continues. he believed as all Christians have for 2,000 years in baptismal regeneration. the reader as the above quote clearly shows. he was a CATHOLIC BISHOP, we should not be surprised he believed and taught the CATHOLIC FAITH.

It is not worth my time to refute the other misrepresentation, but the reader has been put on notice. deception abounds.


66 posted on 03/08/2015 2:21:39 PM PDT by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism
It is not worth my time to refute the other misrepresentation, but the reader has been put on notice. deception abounds.

You've been at this for awhile, and you know the one thing you have never actually done? Contradict me on the topic of Augustine and his embrace of TULIP.

70 posted on 03/08/2015 2:39:46 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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