Subject: Unbaptized children |
Bible Note: Kin, if you are as unyielding as iron that water baptism is essential to salvation, and I am equally as unyielding that it is not, wouldn't it therefore be fair to say that no amount of Scripture you offer as support for your view is likely to sway me to your camp, and that I, using the same method, would have little chance of converting you to my side of the issue? But can we both agree that in the absence of the substitutionary death of Jesus on the cross, neither of us has any hope of salvation, not by the water of baptism or anything else? And can we leave it at that, you being respectful of my point of view and I of yours? On this issue of baptism you may be right or I may be right, but if we both of us believe that Jesus Christ died for our sins, and are in complete agreement on that, then on that key issue we both are right. --Hank |