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  1. Albion

    Accretions

    Then you are not a Trinitarian, despite having claimed that you are one. To be clearer, why would you think that the Father's name is 'Jesus' and the Holy Ghost's name is 'Jesus,' even though Jesus was an Earthly name given to the person born of Mary near Bethlehem? If not, that is, because...
  2. Albion

    Accretions

    I said that the church settled the issue. I didn't say that the church settled the issue without paying any mind to what Scripture has to say about it. As we here have already shown, if Scripture is one's guide, then the baptism of children is proper, since Scripture nowhere indicates that...
  3. Albion

    Accretions

    Not in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit?
  4. Albion

    What is the name of the Father?

    Actually, there are a number of names that have been used (according to Scripture). For example, "I AM," which you didn't even mention. He didn't say the HS would be using Jesus' name. What you are referring to means only that he would come by the authority of or in accordance with the wishes...
  5. Albion

    Accretions

    That seems like an odd statement. The only reason that any Christian might be seen as holding "tenaciously" to the practice of baptizing children is because of the constant attacks that Anabaptists and fundamentalists make against the baptizing of children. By comparison, almost every...
  6. Albion

    What is the name of the Father?

    Not if what you posted is an accurate representation of what you believe. The Trinity is well-described in the Nicene Creed and rules out the idea that the three persons of the Trinity differ only in the names that are used for them. But if you think that there are three persona and they all use...
  7. Albion

    Is Infant Baptism and Accretion?

    The anti-Catholic insults (and misinformation) are getting to be rather thick around here. 😞
  8. Albion

    What is the name of the Father?

    Yes. Not at all. You talk as though the Father and the Son (and the Holy Ghost?) are identical (but maybe just playing different roles at different times?) That is a denial of the doctrine of the Trinity, which you are entitled to do, but not do so and continue to post here on this "Christian...
  9. Albion

    Accretions

    I get the feeling that you have decided to pay no attention to any explanation that doesn't agree with what you already believed before the discussion started. Our authority in this case IS, yes IS, Holy Scripture, and we've pointed that out repeatedly. I hope you can appreciate how...
  10. Albion

    Accretions

    Well, that's true enough. All the other 'slants' on this subject aside, it's the case that baptizing adults exclusively and seeing Baptism as being only a gesture on our part--the Baptist view--are not to be found anywhere in the Bible. And yet, the churchmen who stand by those beliefs will...
  11. Albion

    Is Infant Baptism and Accretion?

    In some mysterious, invisible manner, I suppose. I don't think so. The instituting of the sacraments by Christ was done with considerable deliberateness, according to the Scriptures, and He not only told his followers of the importance and necessity of receiving them, but actually demonstrated...
  12. Albion

    Is Infant Baptism and Accretion?

    You've said that same thing in several posts now, and it's becoming a trifle annoying because it's so obviously a misleading premise. Does the Bible teach that non-believers should be converted and baptized? Yes, of course! Who denies that? No one here has done so. However, the truth of that...
  13. Albion

    Is Infant Baptism and Accretion?

    "He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we did in righteousness, but in accordance with His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit," (Titus 3:5)
  14. Albion

    Is Infant Baptism and Accretion?

    Of course it is. Why would we think that an adult who hears the Gospel and makes a commitment to Christ would NOT have the Holy Spirit imparted to him? But also, there are a number of different moments in life when, according to the Bible, the Holy Spirit is or may be imparted.
  15. Albion

    Is Infant Baptism and Accretion?

    That seems fair to say. Okay. Okay. I don't know how that is a response to anything I wrote, but okay.
  16. Albion

    Is Infant Baptism and Accretion?

    But being "a Christian" doesn't mean you're saved! It's a reference to one's choice of religion at the least and/or is meant to say that the person belongs to a Christian church. It doesn't say that they consider themselves saved simply for having been baptized. And if the person DOES think it...
  17. Albion

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    This isn't weird at all. If Judas had died in the womb, he wouldn't have gone to heaven as you said he would have. That's because NO ONE went to heaven prior to Christ's sacrifice on the Cross. That sacrifice was what made possible all the righteous people from Old Testament times to then go...
  18. Albion

    What is the name of the Father?

    Jesus (Yeshua) is obviously not the name of the Father.
  19. Albion

    Your opinion on euthanasia

    The question asked about the ethical and moral implications of euthanasia, but that approach may be premature anyway. Legal euthanasia has been gaining ground in some countries in Europe lately, and what happened is that doctors given the right to end a life under certain conditions that the...
  20. Albion

    Accretions

    In other words, no, we do not know the ages of anybody who, according to the Bible, was the recipient of baptism. That being the case, why should the church arbitrarily set one for children? Very well, but that's an aspect of sacramental theology that isn't what we've been discussing here...
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