The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Babies, toddlers and the mentally retarded

Oh really? Mark 16:16 you say is the text that answers this question?

I guess that the only ones that are going to be saved are those who believe and are baptized . . . according to your quasi Roman Catholic synergistic theology. The BIBLE.... teaches us that ALL whom God has predestinated, those whom He has elected, those whom He has called, He justifies and at the end, glorifies. The BIBLE teaches us that it is not of man's will, nor of baptism, but of God's mercy that any are saved. Salvation is of the Lord, speratus. Oh when will you come to realize this?

I much prefer the BIBLICAL teaching as summarized rightly in the Westminster Confession of Faith:

The Westminster Confession of Faith
Chapter X Of Effectual Calling

III. Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated, and saved by Christ, through the Spirit,[12] who worketh when, and where, and how he pleaseth:[13] so also are all other elect persons who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word.[14]

12. Gen. 17:7; Luke 1:15; 18:15-16; Acts 2:39; John 3:3, 5; I John 5:12
13. John 3:8
14. John 16:7-8; I John 5:12; Acts 4:12

Notice the stark difference between one having to outwardly believe and undergo baptism for salvation and one being elected by God, regenerated by God the Spirit and saved by Christ [color:red]when, and where, and how HE pleases. Again, "Salvation is of the LORD" and not by man's will or by some outward ritual.

In His Grace,