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Some believe that 1st-century Christians did not practice it, noting the lack of any explicit evidence of infant baptism. [15] Others, noting the lack of any explicit evidence of exclusion of infant baptism, believe that they did, understanding biblical references to individuals "and [her] household" being baptized [16] as including young ...
Anabaptists denied the validity of infant baptism, which was the normal practice when their movement started and practiced believer's baptism instead. Several groups related to Anabaptism, notably the Baptists and Dunkards , soon practiced baptism by immersion as following the Biblical example.
Di Berardino describes the baptism of the New Testament era as generally requiring total immersion, [85] Tischler says that total immersion seems to have been most commonly used, [86] and Lang says "Baptism in the Bible was by immersion, that is, the person went fully under the waters". [87] Sookey says it is "almost certain" that immersion was ...
William Wall (6 January 1647 – 13 November 1728) was a British priest in the Church of England who wrote extensively on the doctrine of infant baptism.He was generally an apologist for the English church and sought to maintain peace between it and the Anabaptists.
German Reformed liberation theologian Jürgen Moltmann, on the other hand, saw infant baptism as inappropriately associated with the national church. He saw baptism as properly a free response God's call to discipleship. [25] Reformed churches have generally maintained the practice of infant baptism despite these critiques. [26]
Proponents of infant baptism argue that this quote shows Polycarp being baptized as an infant, the argument being that if Polycarp was a servant of Christ for 86 years, he would have been a servant of Christ from infancy, suggesting infant baptism. However, against the argument, Schoedel William argued that the quote is ambiguous as regards to ...
The Pentagon has failed its annual financial audit for the seventh year in a row. This means the Department of Defense (DOD) has failed every single audit it has been subjected to, but officials ...
Affusionists think they indirectly apply to water baptism, though, by telling something about the general concept of baptism, regardless of whether the medium of baptism is water or Spirit. Affusionists see more evidence that Luke ’s concept of baptism includes pouring by noting an additional possible connection between water baptism and Holy ...