Questions tagged [paedobaptism]
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What mainstream sects object to infant baptism?
I recently had an interesting discussion with a person who did piercing for a living at one point in time in his life. He told me that the shop he worked had a policy where the would not pierce a baby'...
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Do paedobaptists suggest that a baptised infant is really 'born again'?
This question is for Protestant Trinitarians and addresses the divide among the various denominations of Protestantism, particularly Presbyterianism, Congregationalism and Anglicanism, who baptise ...
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Which doctrine was formalised first: Infant Baptism or Original Sin?
What I mean is something like this :
Case A, Original Sin came first
because all newly born baby are going to hell if they die in their infant age
then let's do Infant Baptism so they don't go to ...
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Did John Calvin believe that the grandchildren of a believer are entitled to infant baptism?
In Calvinism, the children of believers are considered "members of the covenant" and as a sign of that covenant, they are baptized as infants.
Practically speaking, this means that if at least one ...
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What is the earliest explicit mention of infant baptism?
The Bible describes several adults being baptized (notably Jesus and the Ethiopian eunuch that Phillip baptized). And while it mentions many others being baptized, it doesn't explicitly mention ...