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    Water Baptism

    :taz: ... Waiting to talk.
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    Water Baptism

    I would not baptize anyone of any age that has no understanding. I would not baptize a 30 year old in a vegetative coma, but it has nothing to do with age and everything to do with believing. I would baptize a 10 year old quadriplegic who could only blink his eyes if they could communicate...
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    Water Baptism

    Does an example that is not given (like "baptizing first and faith later") constitute A RULE?
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    Water Baptism

    Just curious, if baptism is all about the Priest ministering it ... would you baptize a reluctant, unrepentant 30 year old who was there because their wealthy grandmother had threatened to cut off their living allowance if they didn't get baptized into the Catholic Faith? Wow, this makes twice...
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    Water Baptism

    Exegete, don't pontificate. The word is Credobaptism Credobaptism (from the Latin word credo meaning "I believe") is the practice of baptizing only those who are able to make a profession of faith. Credobaptism is also called Believer's Baptism. It is NOT about age, it is about professing "I...
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    Water Baptism

    Baptists uphold a biblical model of hear - believe - repent - baptize that applies to everyone that would be a part of the Body of Christ ... did the "infants" hear and believe and repent and get baptize, or did you just jump to "get baptized"? We reject the claim that a parent can hear and...
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    Water Baptism

    I hope you don't mind if I engage. don't think I can be quite as PASSIONATE as MennoSota, but I do have a few thoughts and some questions. First, a quick observation ... service, nurseries and Sunday school have nothing to do with baptism. Would you forbid an unbaptized child from attending...
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    Water Baptism

    One more time, and for the record: Peter said "Repent, and each of you be baptized" [Act 2:38] so I say that each person to be baptized should also repent and there should be no baptism of people who have not repented. [NO MENTION OF ANY AGE!] Jesus said "He who has believed and has been...
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    Water Baptism

    Yes you are, and you are the ONLY person making that claim. MennoSota just said "I observe that in every instance in the book of Acts the person first believes and then is baptized."
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    Water Baptism

    The underlined verse is the reason I was reluctant to respond. Few things generate more heat and less light than discussions about LOOSING vs NOT LOOSING salvation. Unfortunately, it never occurred to me that this was the issue at the core of Baptist vs Catholic baptism. If one is only...
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    Water Baptism

    Just for the record, the reason that I didn't respond to your post when you first made it was not because I had no response or because I was ignoring it ... rather, I had an 'a-ha' moment and finally realized how impossibly far apart our thinking is on this and any response I made would be a...
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    Water Baptism

    Rather than proving EVERY person who was baptized first believed, why don't you save us all a lot of time and show us just ONE person in scripture who was baptized while not believing. [Act 16:15, 32-33 NASB] 15 And when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, saying, "If you...
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    If you could change one thing

    Luther and Calvin and the Particular Baptists would have progressively reformed the Catholic Church back to what scripture actually states, rather than progressively divided it.
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    Water Baptism

    Sorry, I was busy being insulted by Josiah and shouting back at him. :argue: It was exhausting. :stress: Is this also the topic where I had promised my response to why there are more "infant baptizers" than "non-baptizers"? I will respond to your post later today ... thanks for the remind. :)
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    Water Baptism

    I am not a 16th century anabaptist, so I don’t care about them. The Particular Baptists, whose views are closer to my own, only go back to the 17th Century, but I am not a 17th Century Particular Baptist either. This straw man ad-hominem attack has never won you any friends, but it has marked...
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    Water Baptism

    Sorry butch, you have repeatedly failed to engage even a single verse presented to you and have instead chosen to parrot your demand for yet more verses. You can’t even bother to acknowledge the meaning of the Greek word “baptizo” yet you are more than willing to attempt to argue about the...
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    Water Baptism

    120 years while surrounded by an evil generation, then 150 days until the boat came to rest on a mountain top, ten and a half months from the start of the flood until he left the Ark. He had to wait another 350 years until he found ultimate comfort in the arms of God.
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    Water Baptism

    What the Didache actually says: Chapter 7. Concerning Baptism And concerning baptism, baptize this way: Having first said all these things, baptize into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Matthew 28:19 in living water. But if you have not living water, baptize into...
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    Water Baptism

    That’s the Baptist point. We baptize how we know to do it from scripture, not what scripture says nothing about. There are LOTS of examples of people who heard the word and were baptized, so we preach the word to people (of all ages) before they are baptized. There are LOTS of examples of...
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    Water Baptism

    Respectfully, the verse was from my post which you quoted and states that Crispus believed and his entire household believed. Thus scripture states that ALL who were baptized from the house of Crispus also believed. What the verse does not say, is the age of the members of Crispus household...
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