
12-18-2007, 07:01 PM
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Originally Posted by CarolinaCalvinist Well, as long as the individual doesn't refuse to be baptized I don't see why other members of households aren't baptized these days. When I was studying the baptism issue I found it helpful that Bill Shishko used the term "oikobaptism" (household baptism) instead of "paedobaptism." It may be one way to keep the Baptist from chanting the "There is no mention of baptizing infants in the New Testament." Well, okay, there aren't, but there is mention of "households" and "families" being baptized. And this is the language of the rite of circumcision in the OT; it included infants. | Hmmmmm.  Very interesting. Do you have a link to this information or care to share where it is found?
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