Summary: Scripture speaks and warns those in NC of real possibility of falling away like in OC. Paul in Romans and Col. speaks of baptism just like circumcision. Peter repeats the covenant formula in commanding baptism. No place in NT states children not incld in covenant rite.
You can and should. Lack of faith prohibits one from being baptized. Early church must be taken with a grain of salt. Many held to baptismal regeneration. Sadly, some believe this. And just as circumcision resulted in pride and works emphasis, so does infant baptism.
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Baptism apart from faith is fruitless.
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Well, I for one, believe that God didn't abandon his Church for 1500 years on this issue. The fact that it was taken for granted as the practice of the Apostles speaks against you. Like circumcision, infants are in the external administration of the covenant.
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I'm sure Catholics would agree. No apostle preached or performed infant baptism. One enters the NC by faith, not baptism. And anyone can enter at anytime. A baptized baby has no advantage over an unbaptized baby. To think otherwise is to exalt pride and works.
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And like Classical Theism, Catholics are correct on this issue - that it is not wrong to baptize infants. Folks don't get to come along thousands of years later and impose their theology on the universal practice of the Church; cutting infants out of the covenant.
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Infant baptism is a practice "the universal Church holds, not as instituted by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority." (Augustine, On Baptism, Against the Donatists 4:24:31)
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Augustine is not inspired. Good guy but wrong on a great many things.
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Infant baptism is present in the fact that it is the equivalent of circumcision, there are household baptisms, and it has always been the practice of the Church. The man-made tradition is to deny what has plainly been a part of Christianity since its inception onward.
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You assume it I present. You read it into the Bible. That is eisigesis. NC is based on faith. Those who by faith become part of the NC are baptized. It isn't based on lineage anymore. That is the whole point. Curious, what is your stance on dreams, visions, gifts of Spirit?
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