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A Protestant friend says only full immersion
Baptism is valid and a person being baptized
must be of age, not an infant. He said
they also must be knowledgeable about
what they are doing.
In other words, Catholics are not really baptized
and by extension, not really saved.
How should I respond?
What specific Church and Biblical references
do I use to support my counter argument?
Greg
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What specific Church and Biblical references
do I use to rebut an anti-infant Baptism argument? }
See also Ezekiel 36:24-31, which is
a prophesy of Baptism but speaks
of it as sprinkling.
24 For I will take you from the
nations, and gather you from all
the countries, and bring you into
your own land. 25 I will sprinkle clean water upon
you, and you shall be clean from
all your uncleannesses, and from
all your idols I will cleanse
you. 26 A new heart I
will give you, and a new spirit
I will put within you; and I will
take out of your flesh the heart
of stone and give you a heart
of flesh. 27 And I will put my
spirit within you, and cause you
to walk in my statutes and be
careful to observe my ordinances. 28 You shall dwell in the land
which I gave to your fathers;
and you shall be my people, and
I will be your God. 29 And I will
deliver you from all your uncleannesses;
and I will summon the grain and
make it abundant and lay no famine upon you. 30 I will make the fruit
of the tree and the increase of
the field abundant, that you may
never again suffer the disgrace
of famine among the nations. 31 Then you will remember your evil
ways, and your deeds that were
not good; and you will loathe
yourselves for your iniquities and your abominable deeds.
Chief among them, is the way Scripture
draws an analogy with circumcision,
in which males, including infants,
were incorporated into the covenant:
"In
him you were also circumcised with
. . . the circumcision of Christ,
having been buried with him in Baptism
and raised with him through your
faith in the power of God, who raised
him from the dead."
"Baptize first the children; and if
they can speak for themselves, let them do so. Otherwise, let their parents or
other relatives speak for them." (The Apostolic Tradition 21)
Origen (post 244 A.D.)
"The Church received from the Apostles the tradition
of giving baptism also to infants." (Commentary on Romans 5, 9)
St. Cyprian of Carthage (252 A.D.)
This council [Council of Carthage] condemned the opinion that infants must wait until the eighth day after birth to be baptized, as was the case with circumcision. (Letter 64 (59), 2)
Interested in what other Christians in the Early Church thought, taught, and died for?
