Eph 1:13-14 not only speaks of adults hearing the word, believing, and receiving the Holy Spirit and being sealed as the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession to the praise of His glory but every passage that speaks of one getting saved in the NT shows how they saved. By grace through faith, without faith it is impossible to please God. One must come by faith, there is no other way.Sure, Ephesians 1:13-14 speaks to those who have believed, but it does not preclude the possibility that even those who have not yet believed, like infants, receive nurturing from the Holy Spirit.
Luke 1:11-16, 39-45
11And an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing to the right of the altar of incense. 12Zacharias was troubled when he saw the angel, and fear gripped him.13But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your petition has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will give him the name John. 14“You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth. 15“For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; and he will drink no wine or liquor, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother’s womb.16“And he will turn many of the sons of Israel back to the Lord their God.
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39Now at this time Mary arose and went in a hurry to the hill country, to a city of Judah, 40and entered the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. 41When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42And she cried out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed isthe fruit of your womb! 43“And how has it happened to me, that the mother of my Lord would come to me? 44“For behold, when the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy. 45“And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what had been spoken to her by the Lord.”
If only adults received baptism, what is the situation of those under twenty, who also passed through the cloud and the water and were buried into Moses's ministry?
If they were not baptised then, at what stage in their life did they express their commitment to God and what was the sacrament?
John the baptist was the one the forerunner to Jesus Christ and was the one Malachi 4:5 spoke about and fulfilled that prophecy. You have to read out of that there every baby an example of John the Baptist. The text speaks nothing of infant baptism.
If only adults received baptism, what is the situation of those under twenty, who also passed through the cloud and the water and were buried into Moses's ministry? Now you make this statement which I never have said that only adults are to be baptized. Go back and find where I said that if you please. Nevertheless that also said nothing whatsoever about infant baptism. It is estimated that maybe 2 million people could have crossed that day, so are we to assume by what you state here that all 2 million of them were saved that day? Another verse that says nothing about infant baptism. In should be clear by now, there is no verse in the whole bible that speaks of infant baptism. I will be on the sidelines from this topic, but whenever anyone shows one verse that actually states infant baptism accomplishes anything to do with salvation by grace through faith, I will be elated, until then,
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