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Age of Accountibility
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LiturgyInDMinor
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I love credo-baptists.
Please read all about the concept of a "covenant relationship".
Please read all about the concept of a "covenant relationship".
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Dorothea
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When we stand in front of Christ at our Judgment, we will be like those infants and little children. Did you not read what I posted. Baptism is about God gathering His people....no matter what age. Having been baptized, chrismated, and taken Communion when an infant or toddler is a great protector and guidance for that child as they grow up, no matter if they recognize that at the start.
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LiturgyInDMinor
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When we stand before our Lord at Judgement He also won't go..."tsk tsk, you were baptized as an infant...no room for you!"
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When we stand before our Lord at Judgement He also won't go..."tsk tsk, you were baptized as an infant...no room for you!"
Naw, I don't think so either.
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No, I didn't leave it out. It wasn't necessary. It wouldn't change what I was saying. Infants and children are part of a nation.You left out the little word "of"Woops
Make disciples of all nations, baptizing them ...
It doesn't mean to baptize every infant or every child any more than it means to baptize every adult. We are to baptize the ones we are making disciples of. I don't see any age requirements for disciples. As a matter of fact, we are told that in order to enter the Kingdom of God we must become like little children. Little children don't stumble over their own rationalizations when they receive the Gospel or require that God ask their permission to save them.
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New_Wineskin
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AofA is an idiotic doctrinal patch used to clean up the mess made by some groups' doctrine of "original sin" ( inherited sin ) . They have the doctrine that all humans ( except Jesus and Mary for some reason - those are already patches in the doctrine ) inherit sin and sinners from conception .
Somewhere down the line after that doctrine was pronounced , someone asked "what about the babies when they die ? Do they go to Hell ? Wouldn't that imply that 'God' is unfair ?" ( this ignores the fact that He would be unfair to begin with by declaring them to have sinned by decision of their own ) .
Well , they have water baptism and so save them even though they didn't make that decision , either . But , those making the questions were asking about those not sprinlkled .
So , they think and think and come up with the idea that children are protected by their "innocence" up to a certain age . Their innocence didn't help them from being declared a sinner at conception but now they have years ( five maybe ? ) of doing what they want and not be held accountable .
If they simply rethought the Original Sin doctrine , they could have left whether a person was in sin or not in the Lord's hands . But , once a doctrine has been accepted , it is written in stone .
Anyway , that is my take on it . The doctrine makers and acceptors won't agree .
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1) That's the argument FOR baptising children. I was just showing that the same argument works better the other way around.
The argument against something that has no biblical support is easier to make that to try to make an argument for it. Silly wabbit.
2) You're kidding right?
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MrPolo
Woe those who call evil good + good evil. Is 5:20
The usual use of the phrase "age of accountability" refers to a person's accountability for their actions at judgement. cf Mt 12:36, Rm 14:12, 1 Pet 4:5
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No, it's funny. Lighten up, your tie is too tight. Stop looking for an excuse to be offended.
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LiturgyInDMinor
Celtic Rite Old Catholic Church
Anyway...give us biblical accounts, or even accounts from church history perhaps, to support the Age of Accountibility concept please.
I was a baptist for 10 years and have heard it all from the pulpit to the pastor's opinions....I request your's now.
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