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1 | were infants baptized? | Acts 16:15 | EdB | 148697 | ||
Jeff I personally think we make too much of the whole thing. In the early church when one of the family came to saving knowledge of Jesus Christ they whole family did and were baptized. Acts 10:44-48 Acts 16:15 Acts 16:33 Acts 18:8 and Acts 19:5. After that I imagine if a baby was born they wanted him to become a partaker of the New Covenant through Baptism much like the Jews made their babies partakers of the Old Covenant by circumcising them at 8 days. And hence it began. As best we can tell Babies were baptized as infant for the next 1500 years with very few objections. However in the Reformation men started to question this. They developed terms to describe each position. Words like Paedobaptist, Credobaptist and Anabaptist. We now argue whether you should or should not be baptized as a Baby, upon salvation, before death etc. We also argue if is mandatory or not and then we argue over the words to use, in Jesus' name only or in the Name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. We also argue if you should dip, dunk or sprinkle. From these points we can come up with all kinds of variations. From scripture I can’t see anything that dictates how, when, and by what formula and I believe if your baptized as a baby and you have a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ praise God. If you weren’t baptized as a baby and you get saved then baptized then praise God. If you were never baptized but are saved through Jesus Christ then again I praise the Lord. If you were baptized as infant then came to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and got baptized again praise the Lord. How and when and what formula are all things Satan has put in way for man to argue over, divide us and make the church look like a mass of confusion to the world. EdB |
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2 | were infants baptized? | Acts 16:15 | JCrichton | 148780 | ||
Hi, EdB! Excellent post! It amazes me how much time and divisiveness goes into the arguments Christians conjure up in order to separate ourselves from other Christians! I may be a simple man... but, how old was John the Baptist when the Holy Spirit touched him and his mother and allowed them both to recognize their God?... so why do we attempt to limit the Holy Spirit by generating the various formulas that simply serve to create schism in the Body of Christ?... Christ did not called us to love those in "our" group; He called us to be His disciples and to demonstrate to the world that we are His by loving one another and by being one with one another as we are one with Him! God Bless! Angel |
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