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I agree, but HONESTY also demands that we recognize that Infant Baptism was potentially common by at least the end of the first or early second century and DOMINATED most of Church history. The Didache from this time does not specifically mention Infant Baptism but does allow alternatives to "immersion" that certainly facilitate baptizing infants. So the practice is not APOSTOLIC, but it is EARLY CHURCH (as with most things Christians get wrong).
I haven't anything against baptizing believers, but I have many things against the baptism of Baptist only believers.
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I personally do not concentrate much upon baptism of any kind. As a Roman Catholic I was taught you had to be bapitised after birth ASAP so as not to die with Origional sin on the babies soul. It was a type of exorcism and then it was identified by RC Catechism as the 1st Sacrament…. So if it’s done properly then your hooked up properly. You become a member of that church family.
Catholic Russian/Greek Orthodox hold to another Gospel heresy of Sacramentalism Grace unto salvation, while Lutherans in this weird position of holding to real gospel , but also holding to a form of sacramentalism which leaves one confused and not sure of salvation
The 66 canonical Inspired books were written and copied and used to teach from way before Roman catholic church even existed
Rome really not what we know as Catholic church until papacy established in full centuries after Apostles died
The true Church of Jesus is built upon him as Chief Cornerstone, is His body and Bride, and that Church is not Rome, but all redeemed by Him throughout history, regardless of their church labels on doorway
Think that the Practice of Believers Baptism can be directly affirmed from NT though, while infant has to be implied, and that is due to how one ties water abptism of NC and Circumcision of OT together
You refer to "beleivers Baptism" here?"
No ONLY Rome holds to that, while Lutheran and Anglicans hold to something similar but not exactly same thing
If that’s their “Religion” …it’s not true gospel, rather it’s some gospel plus Sacrimentalism, plus Sacred traditions and that’s why we as BAPTISTS can have nothing to do with them. Imagine you walk into a church group that prays to Icons as the Orthodox do. I came from all of that, the statues, the Novenas, the processions, exorcism, stations of the cross blah blah blah….thats essentially Religion. The local RC Church I was a member of in my youth and is a block away from my home. They just repaired the bell that was used years ago to call people to mass/ service , imagine that…so when I go out to feed my chicken I hear it ringing and I’m still drawn to it. The bell rings and I say, “Bring out Your Dead” ( remember Monty Python… LOL). And in doing that I remind myself to stay away, to reject it…reject the draw toward it.
Out of curiosity, do you consider WELS a works based religion?
It worked ... she prayed for Trump to be elected and he was. [Balaam's donkey?]
As a child my mother consistently reinforced to me that the RCC was the one and only ‘True Church’…even then, as a child I would question that stance because to me it is arrogant. She did not mean it to be that, only to indoctrinate me to RC thinking and i can document to you many many experiences from Catholic Nuns, Priests and Catholic laymen teaching that Roman Catholicism is the ONLY TRUE RELIGION path to God…ie., brainwashing. Note that on her deathbed she recanted of that falsification.