Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.
I know nothing of the kind in my heart. You also did not answer the question.You guys know in your heart that one must first believe, just admit infant baptism is not what was commanded and lets move on brother.
I'm glad that's been brought up. Why did God find it proper for babies to be circumcised? Should He not have waited until they believed and understood?
I know nothing of the kind in my heart. You also did not answer the question.
Infants, per God's instructions were circumcised on the eighth day. Why did God not instruct for it to come when one believes like the adult converts?
What I know in my heart is that an infant needs Christ.
How about circumcision of the heart?
Ishmael was 13 before he got snipped................Probably because circumcision has nothing to do with salvation.
Gen 17:
23 Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.
25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
26 That very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.
That's included in our one baptism.
How about circumcision of the heart?
Fascinating theory. Where'd you pick it up?Babies already have a circumcised heart from the moment they are born into the world. Even when infants do something they are not supposed to do, it is not counted as sin, simply because they do not yet understand good from bad.
God indeed decides. And does it through water and oil. Is God limited to only that way? God is not limited.
Fascinating theory. Where'd you pick it up?
It seems to me that "rebaptism" is an act of legalism: replacing the sign of the covenant with the act itself.
The Scriptures seem pretty clear to me on how infants are regarded in the eyes of God. Take a look at Israel, for instance, even though most of the Israelites were destroyed in the wilderness for disobeying the commandments of God (1 Corinthians 10:5), the infants were spared and allowed to enter the promised land and take possession of it. Why did God do this?
And the little ones that you said would be taken captive, your children who do not yet know good from bad--they will enter the land. I will give it to them and they will take possession of it. Deuteronomy 1:39
God allowed the babies to inherit the promised land because they did not yet have the knowledge between good and evil. In other words, were innocent before God. This is reason that God commands each and everyone to be like little children, otherwise, we too, will not enter the promised land.
And he said: "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:3
Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults. 1 Corinthians 14:20
Remember, the Kingdom of God belong to little children and ones like them.
Can an infant do evil?Fascinating theory. Where'd you pick it up?
1 Corin 14:20
Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children.
In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?