hey I've been really wrestling with baptism lately... I've been reading both sides of the baptism debate and one article by a Baptist claimed that infant baptism didn't become common practice until around the 6th century. What say you, sir?
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Replying to @SteveLikeANinja @acmills237
Hey. How y’all doing ... baptism convo huh. ...pic.twitter.com/5jhMr7lEtA
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Replying to @Lex_Lutheran @acmills237
Yup! I've been unsure of my views on it lately... my dad handed me a long passage by an Independent Baptist church comparing Baptismal Regeneration with the Baptist view... now I'm just confused tbh
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Replying to @SteveLikeANinja @acmills237
Hey baptismal regeneration ... count me in. Baptizing babies & Baptismal regeneration is the dominant view of early church. Drew doesn’t agree with BR, but I think even he’ll admit the early church held to it. To say either was not held by earlier church is a skew of history
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Replying to @Lex_Lutheran @acmills237
gotcha. shortish story, in the last year I've been trying to establish what I believe is the most biblical theology... coming from a calvinistic dispensationalist baptist family, I've been taught that way (funny tho, my parents used to be paedobaptist so I was baptized as a baby)
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Replying to @SteveLikeANinja @acmills237
Well ... Baptism & baptism regeneration is one of my fav topics to discuss (some would call it a ministry). I’m open to dialogue whenever
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Replying to @Lex_Lutheran @acmills237
cool, cuz I have a legit question... if BR is true, and baptism creates faith, then wouldn't it be reasonable to say that nobody would believe the gospel apart from being baptized? I don't want to sound like I'm building a straw man, but this makes sense to me
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Replying to @SteveLikeANinja @acmills237
No. We never & church history never states it’s the “only” way to be given the gift of faith. But we assert scripture states it is a way. & I’d go as far to say ... no where else in scripture is a physical means promised to apply HIS life & resurrection to a person than baptism
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It’s God’s word in baptism that gives the faith ... jus as it’s God’s word when the gospel verbally spoken that gives faith.
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Replying to @Lex_Lutheran @acmills237
Makes sense. two questions from there... 1) what about people who are baptized and do not believe? 2) if someone believes apart from being baptized, then what would the purpose of baptism be? just so you know... I'm not tryna to trap you with questions, I legit want to understand
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Hmm, from a Reformed perspective, to [1] I'd note that, like circumcision, (to which Scripture compares baptism) while infants were in the external administration of the covenant, not every Israelite was regenerate. 1/2
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Replying to @AndyTGD @SteveLikeANinja and
To the question of whether a baby who has not been baptized goes to heaven or hell: yeah, its definitely complicated. I'd simply say that God can save whom He wills. "Won't the Judge of the whole earth do what is just?" 2/2
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