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(Fred) So, in order to be regenerated, one will need to be baptized correct? Thus, it is safe to assume with your position that you believe that when an infant is baptized that the infant is regenerated?

No. The Holy Spirit works faith when and where it pleases God in them that hear the gospel. We baptize (and preach)solely on the command of Christ.

(Fred) Well, that is funny. Up above in some of the posts, you seem rather insistent that baptism is a sacarament. In fact, you stated:

It is not the act of baptism that regenerates but the word of God that is in and with the water, and faith that trusts in the word of God.

So, if the Holy Spirit is the one that works, what is the point of the baptism? Can there be any efficaciousness to it as applied to infants? Surely, if you are a good Lutheran, you practice infant baptism? And if regeneration is wrought through baptism in the sense that it is a mixture of the word of God and faith trusting in the word of God, then your system must keep open the possibility of infants with believing faith who are regenerated?
Either way you wish to explain your system, ultimately the entire thing suggests that by the act of baptizing a baby that baby can have faith and be regenerated. However, I am at a loss of finding anything remotely suggesting such a scenario in scripture.

Fred

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