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Post published by One Eyed Owl
Heidelberg Catechisms#74
Are infants also to be baptized?
Yes, for since they, as well as their parents, belong to the covenant and people of God, and through the blood of Christ both redemption from sin and the Holy Spirit, who works faith, are promised to them no less than to their parents, they are also by Baptism, as a sign of the covenant, to be ingrafted into the Christian Church, and distinguished from the children of unbelievers, as was done in the Old Testament by circumcision, in place of which in the New Testament Baptism is appointed.
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Run_Like_Joseph_Did
just messin, i love the heidelberg confession
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So if infants are baptized, what exactly does that do? That is a sign that they will receive the Holy Spirit?
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Run_Like_Joseph_Did
I could give you a surface level understanding.
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Run_Like_Joseph_Did
Baptism is a sign and seal of the covenant
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Mr. McMarty
No...we can not do anything to receive the Holy Spirit in and of ourselves. Infant Baptism is an act of faith only on the part of the parents
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