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To: SoothingDave
Anabaptist theology does tend to break down when dealing with young children. They pay lip service to this mess when they have "baby dedications" & "christenings" that are certainly un-(not anti-)scriptural, but they must have a cultural "need" there.

Of course, ours can too unless you think that unbaptized newborn babies go to Hell when they die. Not something I'm particulary interested in defending.

47,745 posted on 04/21/2003 11:36:41 AM PDT by IMRight (This space available - Refer all requests to 1-888-TAG-LINE - Managed by Malakhi advertising Inc.)
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To: IMRight
Of course, ours can too unless you think that unbaptized newborn babies go to Hell when they die. Not something I'm particulary interested in defending.

We have no revelation of the salvation of such children, only the enduring hope in God's mercy.

But we recognize that their peril lies in their unregenrated, damaged humanity and not in any personal sin they may have committed.

SD

47,753 posted on 04/21/2003 11:47:35 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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