
Originally Posted by
BobVigneault
We certainly are to try and avoid building doctrine out of the narrative sections of scripture.
Depends... I usually build my belief in six-day creation on the narrative in Genesis 1, though. (And it would be stretching it to call that a dialog.)
Not to nag you, but just saying, sometimes it is justified to do just that.

Originally Posted by
Semper Fidelis
All cavils aside about how Christ only blesses them and doesn't baptize them ignores the glorious fact that these children were blessed by our Lord.
Christ did not baptize at all:

Originally Posted by
John 4:1-3, ESV 1 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 3 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.
(Emphasis added)

Originally Posted by
BobVigneault

Not think hard.
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Netherlands Reformed Congegration of Kampen
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Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness, and let him reprove me, it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities. Psalm 141:5
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