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Originally Posted by JohnOwen007  Quote: |
there is no instance of the water baptism of babies in the Bible;
| Wrong. Israel had their equivalent of baptism and the Lord's Supper (1 Cor. 10:1-4). The Lord's Supper ("the same spiritual food") was the manna feedings (1 Cor. 10:3-4) which taught them "not to live by bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God" (Deut. 8:3).
And Israel's baptism occurred in the Exodus (1 Cor. 10:1-2). It was a sign of the exodus from slavery to sin that Christ would win on the cross. And there were, naturally, babies who were in Israel's Exodus, and thus had the sign of baptism applied to them.
Yes, babies are baptized in the bible. |
Not New Covenant water baptism. And it was not a baptism that signified the forgiveness of sin. It was a baptism into Moses. The fact that they all were baptised in the cloud and sea into Moses is not the same thing as being baptised into Christ. They were indeed fed by the Spiritual Rock but that does not necessarily imply that the feeding was necessarily spiritual. The feeding was very physical in nature to feed their flesh and not necessarily their souls. For God was not pleased with most of them.