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Originally Posted by SemperFideles  It's these kinds of statements that convince me you're better at cutting and pasting than you are grasping Covenant Theology and the Reformed understanding of Baptism. |
Perhaps so, I mean all you need to know is "Ctrl+P", but that does not show how Questions 69-71 of the Heidelberg Catechism is applicable to infants.
Nor indeed:
XXVII. LORD'S DAY.
Question 72. Is then the external baptism with water the washing away of sin itself?
Answer. Not at all: for the [a] blood of Jesus Christ only, and the Holy Ghost cleanse us from all [b] sin.
Question 73. Why then doth the Holy Ghost call baptism "the washing of regeneration," and "the washing away of sins"?
Answer. God speaks thus not without great cause, to-wit, not only thereby to teach us, that as the filth of the body is purged away by water, so our sins are [c] removed by the blood and Spirit of Jesus Christ; but especially that by [d] this divine pledge and sign he may assure us, that we are spiritually cleansed from our sins as really, as we are externally washed with water.
[a]: Mat. 3:11; 1Pet. 3:11
[b]: 1John 1:7; 1Cor. 6:11
[c]: Rev. 1:5; 1Cor 6:11
[d]: Mark 16:16; Gal. 3:27