“What does “he and his” mean?? “His” means his whole family and every translator realizes that.”
No. Some say household. Some say something else. The word doesn’t exist in the inspired Scripture. There is absolutely no indication of a single infant in the passage.
“The Holy Spirit wrote the Bible in such a way that anyone who wants to reject the authority Jesus gave to His Church can pull a verse or two out of context and start a whole movement as history will attest.”
Here, we are talking about your one passage and I pointed out it does not say what you claim.
“Such is the case with the anabaptists in the 16th century. Those that follow this tradition of men demand the Church show them where the Apostles baptized babies.”
Which the Apostles are never recorded doing.
This is another distraction from the passage that never says infants were baptized.
“The Apostolic Tradition can only be kept by those who have Apostolic Succession.”
The Scriptures nowhere teach Apostolic succession.
This is another distraction from the passage that never says infants were baptized.
“Of course we live in an age where anything goes and since the two witnesses are dead, the world rejoices at their corpses.”
The two witnesses have not come yet. This is another distraction from the passage that never says infants were baptized.
“We were told false teachers would arise, so we aren’t surprised.”
They arose before John the Apostle was dead. They were prevalent and infiltrated the church, bringing pagan customs which are not “apostolic tradition.”
Some say household. Lol, household is even more likely to include babies as not only is the entire family included in the household, but in those days household would also include extended family, friends and servants.
I am still waiting to read about the Church controversy that ensured in the first and second century when infant baptism was invented by the apostate Catholic Church and the “true” Christian Church opposed this false teaching.
Again, if someone attends a church that practices what is called “believers baptism”.........imagine this Sunday walking into the morning service and the pastor is dunking a baby in the baptismal pool. Would you just shrug your shoulders and say “ oh, that’s different” or would the pastor be fired on the spot?
The Church in the first century was no different. Infant baptism was not a point of contention until the 16th century and even then, the majority of Protestants kept to the Apostolic Tradition.