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Originally Posted by Eoghan  Quote:
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Originally Posted by Eoghan A worthy addition to the shorter catechism  Q. "What prevents me from being baptised?"
A. "If you believe with all your heart, you may"
Acts 8:36-38  | I don't think so. It's already in there. Q. 95. To whom is Baptism to be administered?
A. Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible church, till they profess their faith in Christ, and obedience to him; but the infants of such as are members of the visible church are to be baptized. | ...and these infants believe with all their hearts?  |
Off topic. James White is my friend but there's an irony that a great text he might enlist to his aid in this debate would not be available to him because the newer translations omit that portion of Acts 8:36. I don't really want to go down that rabbit hole but it just tickled me a bit.
If you look at what Jay said, the first part
is in the question of administration. Whether you agree with the portion that follows after the semi-colon, the first part acknowledges that adult baptisms require a profession of faith. It's sort of like a violent agreement with Presbyterians at that point. I think you'll need to deal with Tom Bombadil's reductio ad absurdum if you're going to claim that an example of an adult baptism makes this normative for
all baptims. You may wish to assert that the example makes this plain but this has to be argued and not merely asserted.