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🌘🕙 4 yr via enuts
@leonidas What do you think of infant baptism?
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🌗🕢 4 yr via Arachis
@33MHz @leonidas jajajajajaj! This is funny—even Peanut ain’t the place for this convo. What do you think of it?
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🌘🕣 4 yr via Goober BB10
@Leonidas I think it's somewhat semantic whether you say "baptism" is parents st... - http://chimpnut.nl/u/33MHz/lp/671104 - #longpost
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@Leonidas I think it's somewhat semantic whether you say "baptism" is parents stating their intent at birth + a confirmation later vs a statement later. Ofc the sign of baptism--dying to one's self--is there regardless. IMO the imptnt is public profession.…

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🌘🕙 4 yr via Goober BB10
@Leonidas I jive with the apparent family baptisms. And I jive with a public statement of faith, which a baby can't make. But I think baptism has multiple purposes, and infant baptism is unbundling those purposes.
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🌔🕙 4 yr via Goober BB10
@Leonidas my preference is not to do infant baptism, and call what we do something else. Reverse it. But that's a little screwball. I respect PCA's way and submit to the church.
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🌔🕣 4 yr via Arachis
@33MHz that’s good you respect and submit, because it’s more than likely that the hundred plus elders who wrote the Westminster Confession (together!) considered your thoughts and more.
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