I have several questions about Fundamentalism.

[Radrook]

This is a good point.

The "lying Bible" - the "lying Word of God" argument starts in Genesis 3. So also does the false religion of evolutionism and the idea of evolving to a higher form of existence.

Great insight! Satan did suggest that they would evolve!

 

[BobRyan]

Great insight! Satan did suggest that they would evolve!

indeed. Blind faith evolutionism did not do Eve any favors.

 

[BobRyan]

With that thought in mind - what about the "amalgamation of man and beast" this month??

NIH proposed funding for Human-animal chimeras and hybrids - brought to you by your friends - the evolutionists.

 

[sculleywr]

1 Peter 3 [For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. After being made alive,d he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits— to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God.e It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.]

Now before any church baptizes any more infants and lead masses into the great fall let them understand they are just pouring water on babies for nothin'. How can an infant pledge a clear conscience towards God? How can an infant know the difference between sin and righteousness? How can an infant be cleansed from anything? The stain of Adam was, "Back-breaking pain when having a child, working yourself off to earn bread and going back to the dust man came from," and you still baptize them and we still go to labor, we still work, and we still say, from ashes to ashes and dust to dust. So what stain are you referring to? If it's eternal redemption, the mind of an infant is not with any sin to lead it to damnation! But the weakness of flesh, is inevitable regardless of the time a man is baptized. The sooner the man is able to tell the difference between good and evil, the sooner he needs the SEAL OF THE COVENANT, the Holy GHOST! :/

How can an infant pledge to be faithful to the Jewish faith at circumcision? Oh, wait, he can't. Baptism is to Christianity what Circumcision was to the Jewish faith. Nothing changed that put that membership in the Faith out of the reach of infants.

If Baptism saves us, as Scripture says it does, then why do you deny it to your children? Would you deny them life-saving medicine if they were sick? Would you deny them food when they are hungry? Would you deny them drink when they are thirsty? Why then, would you deny them that which saves?

Baptism is not just a medicine that is received after one becomes sick. It is a vaccine, given to strengthen a child when he encounters sin. It is putting them in the Body of Christ where they will receive spiritual nourishment. It is putting them into the Spirit.

You have to realize that if Baptism is the Circumcision of Christianity as Paul said it was, then it applies to every person who is valid for Circumcision. The Christian Faith does not close the door to people for whom the door was opened under the Jewish faith. It opens the door for those to whom the door was closed.