The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Infant Baptism Question

speratus,

Methinks you are switching horses in the middle of the stream here. The original question you asked me, in reference to my rejection of baptism administered by the Roman State Church was:


But now you have brought in the issue of membership, which I consider to be an entirely different animal; an addition to the original question.

I follow Calvin wherever he is in agreement with the Scriptures and not otherwise. As I have said all along and for years previous, I believe Calvin to have accredited far too much to baptism in certain areas without a solid biblical warrant to do so. Perhaps I need to remind you once again that I hold to Sola Scriptura and not Sola Calvinura! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> And I repeat here also, that I do not hold that the Tridentine formula recited by a priest, bishop, elder, pastor, etc.. is the sole requisite for a valid baptism. What is also required is a valid profession of the one administering the sacrament, and a valid profession of faith of the recipient or of the parents of the infant being baptized. Since Rome is apostate in its doctrine as are all cults; they are not of the true church, then I reject the baptisms administered by them. For the command to baptize was given to the CHURCH and non else.

In His Grace,