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1 | Bible reference to infant baptism | Bible general Archive 4 | Gauntlet 1776 | 224235 | ||
Bible reference to infant baptism | ||||||
2 | Bible reference to infant baptism | Bible general Archive 4 | Pew Potato | 224236 | ||
From a very balanced debate between R.C. Sproul and John MacArthur: One of the things that John has made absolutely clear in his excellent presentation today is that there’s nowhere in the New Testament that explicitly commands the baptism of infants, or explicitly mentions the baptism of infants. And so he concludes it’s simply not in the New Testament. And from an explicit perspective, I agree with him completely. We also have stipulated and agreed that there’s no explicit prohibition against infant baptism to be found anywhere in the New Testament either. So in the absence of explicit teaching, both sides in this controversy are forced to rely upon inferences drawn from what is explicit in Scripture, and that should by the very virtue of that fact force us to go the second mile in patience with one another when we recognize, I cannot prove to John MacArthur that Scripture commands the baptism of infants, and by not baptizing infants he is being disobedient to his Lord and at the same time he can’t point to a text in the Bible that explicitly prohibits infant baptism and say to you, “R.C., you have to stop doing what Scripture prohibits.” I think we all understand the absence of the explicit directives in either case and since we are both relying upon inferences, we have to be exceedingly patient and charitable with each other. To read or listen to the full debate: http://www.gty.org/Resources/Articles/A361_Case-for-Infant-Baptism-The-Historic-PaedoBaptist-Position http://www.gty.org/Resources/Articles/A360_Case-for-Believers-Baptism-The-Credo-Baptist-Position |
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3 | Bible reference to infant baptism | Bible general Archive 4 | sonofmom | 224277 | ||
The baptism of an infant is basically useless because an infant cannot place its faith into anything, and cannot join in the act. It basically lays there and has someone else's will exercised over it. The reason for the addition of infants into the sacrament of Baptism that I was given by a RCC scholar was this: They simply ran out of adults to baptize and started baptising the babies. The word comes from the Greek 'baptismo' which means to immerse. |
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4 | Bible reference to infant baptism | Bible general Archive 4 | Beja | 224278 | ||
sonofmom, I am a very committed advocate of credo baptism (believer's baptism as opposed to infant baptism.) However, such a light dismissal of the view of infant baptism shows not only serious lack of understanding their arguements but also almost unavoidably contains a bit of ungracious disdain for its proponents, since it necessarily sees them as unable to grasp a simple truth which the rest of us grasp. Do you really believe they just decided to start baptizing infants because they ran out of adults? Did you listen to the debate which he posted before so lightly dismissing the idea? As stated, I am against infant baptism, but I do not think we do the discussion justice by so lightly dismissing it but rather show that we have yet to truly see the issues. Forgive me if this post sounds unkind. I do not mean to offend, but I sincerly want to encourage you to actually hear and understand why they believe what they do before assuming they are simpletons. In Christ, Beja |
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