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To: impimp

“Household typically means household and not adults only.”

It could mean dogs too, under that broad interpretation.

It does not say a single human was baptized who did not entrust themselves to Christ alone for salvation.
It does not say a single child was baptized.
It does not say a single baby was baptized.
It does not say any family pets were baptized.

Surely, if you are claiming infant baptism is Scriptural, you must have something - anything - other than an invisible baby to put forth as proof??

The invisible cries of an invisible baby are a double argument from silence...


24 posted on 01/27/2016 7:19:15 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (As a representative of Earth, I officially welcome Global Warming to our planet)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Surely, if you are claiming infant baptism is Scriptural, you must have something - anything - other than an invisible baby to put forth as proof??

Colossians 2:11-12, baptism replaces circumcision. Infants were circumcised, why wouldn't they be baptized? Is baptism man's work or is it God's? Is faith man's work or a gift of God? Why would reason be needed for faith?

Not scripture, but Father Origen wrote in 240 A.D. "The church received a tradition from the apostles to give baptism to infants too."

26 posted on 01/27/2016 7:41:06 AM PST by Tao Yin
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Yep.

It doesn’t sy they baptized the dead people in their graves, either.

Infant baptism is completely unbiblical - unfortunately, lots of the midstream “protestants” have an infant baptism hangup as well.

Luths, Presbys, Angs, etc.... they never quite got around to finishing a Biblical Reformation.

They still have one foot in Rome and one foot.... wherever.


43 posted on 01/27/2016 11:15:35 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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