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To: one Lord one faith one baptism
“only adults were said to be baptized? really, you know the jailer had no cildren how?”

O.K., If we are to assume that he had children, assume since none are mentioned, then we may assume anything else we wish about them, perhaps assuming they were grown children living in the household, not uncommon even today.

But if we go with what the Scriptures say then only adults are spoken of as being baptized.

The long list of Church Fathers shows none defending infant baptism from the Scriptures.

So the pattern from the Scriptures was discipleship, baptism, learning the commandments. 1,2,3.

466 posted on 06/10/2012 8:20:26 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change

you are reading doctrines into the Scriptures that are not there and contradict 2,000 years of Christian practice and belief. who knows better what the Apostles taught than those who heard them and saw what they did?

the Scriptures DO NOT speak of only adults being baptized. Jewish 1st century households would have been full of children.

1,500 years is a long time for no one to understand a core doctrine like baptism.


476 posted on 06/10/2012 9:22:43 AM PDT by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: count-your-change

What of Scripture saying that “whole households” were baptized?


551 posted on 06/11/2012 9:01:33 AM PDT by Jvette
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