Sure, if you are an adult, you answer for yourself at Baptism.
If you are an infant, your parents answer for you. As with circumcision.
And as with circumcision, the flesh profits NOTHING!
Your ignorance of Scripture is telling.
There is no doctrine in scripture telling you to deny infants baptism, that is human construct not Scripture.
Where does it teach ‘ Deny infants Baptism ‘?
Where does it say to baptize them?
On the contrary, we are told to teach and preach to people and baptize after belief.
Since you follow men and not God, you believe that getting babies wet saves them.
No, this doesn’t teach ‘ Deny infants baptism ‘ either.
Show me one infant baptism in Scripture.
No. Paul says to “hold to the traditions the we taught you, either by word of our mouth or by writing.”
And you heard what Paul said out of his own mouth?
The reason I reject your “apostolic successor” false teachings is because your successors don’t follow Scripture. I have considered the end of their conversation and I reject their teachings because they don’t follow Christ. They follow the benefit of the “Catholic church.” It is a church run for the benefit of itself. The gold of its temples to itself preaches a sermon to any who see it, lay not up for yourselves treasures.
The doctrines of your church, for the greater part, are only for the financial benefit of the organization. They have duped people like you, unless you are one of the people who are misleading the people.
That is not what Paul told the Bereans. Again, your inability to read and comprehend Scripture is telling.
You reject Apostolic Word of mouth Tradition so you are not following Scripture or tradition.
Matthew 15:9
But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
They only had the Old Testament. What Paul was teaching was the Gospel preached, the Oral New Testament.
So we have more Scripture than they did. And?
It doesn’t make it important for me to believe what someone says I am supposed to believe contrary to Scripture just because he is the pope or a priest somewhere.
But orthodox means according to Scripture. So if they claim to be first like you do, who should we believe? Who is lying.
Or maybe you should take a hint and recognize how many people leave your church to follow the Bible.
The Church was called Catholic before break, but after the break they called themselves Orthodox, and we remained Catholic.
Not only remaining Catholic but also in error.
(I’m not saying that the Orthodox are without error either.)
It’s implied in Scripture when whole families were baptised.
It is not implied that any family that was baptized even had infants. To assume that families, whose makeup is not mentioned, also baptized infants who were not mentioned is faulty reasoning and is a form of confirmation bias.
Nowhere does it say ‘ Deny thy infants baptism and only baptise adults ‘ that’s human tradition founded in the 1600s, not Scripture.
So, unscriptural.
Nowhere in Scripture does it say “baptize thine infants.” That was a human tradition. If it was important, it would have been commanded in Scripture.
Yes there is, Original sin.
Adam is responsible for the original sin.
We are made like Adam, sinners, responsible for our own sins, not Adam’s.
But if baptism takes care of that, then it would cover for generations afterwards whose bodies have been washed by baptism. But that is not how it works.
You could, but that would be false, and Church history proves that wrong.
Your history.
It is useless to talk to a Catholic about history. They have their own. And they adopt their opponents if expedient. Joan of Arc for example.
Real Catholic history:
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Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with (Catholic)
church dogma must be burned without pity.” (Source: Papal Bull, 1198 A.D.)
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We prohibit laymen possessing copies of the Old and New Testament. …We forbid them most severely to have the above books in the popular vernacular.” (meaning in their country’s native language, as the Papal Church only allowed their priests to read it in Latin). (Source: The Council of Toulouse, Canon 14)
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We declare, assert, define and pronounce to be subject to the Roman Pontiff is to every creature altogether necessary for salvation… I have the authority of the King of Kings. I am all in all, and above all, so that God Himself and I, the Vicar of Christ, have but one consistory, and I am able to do almost all that God can do. What therefore, can you make of me but God?” (Papal bull Unam sanctam, 1302 A.D.)
I don’t gather any teachings from your church. I don’t want to come close to any of the blasphemy of your leaders.
I do. It would make a huge difference if you understood it too.
So you say. But that doesn’t mean you do understand. You merely use what is convenient for you. You are not a follower of Christ, rather of your organization. You draw people to Catholicism and not Christ. You bring them from one bondage into another. And you back it up with arc welding bright fairytale babies.
I hope that you May one day be honest with yourself.
