Saiph
Puritan Board Junior
You Asked:
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Out of curiosity, I want to understand your perspective, so here's a hypothetical situation: A man and wife don't believe in church, but think that it's up to each family to grow in God and raise their children to do the same. But they also happen to believe in paedobaptism, and so in the hospital the day the baby is born, the father sprinkles water on the baby, verbally proclaiming that he is baptizing that he is baptizing the baby in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Would you consider that baptism valid?
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As horrifying as that idea seems to me, I would have to say, yes.
Water, and the name of the Trinity are all that is necessary.
That is all I see in Scripture.
Even if the doctrine of the Trinity is false, the Triune God aknowledges the power of His own name in the sacrament.
One might say that "Orthodox Faith" on the part of the minister or parents is neccessary but I do not agree there either.
That is the root of Donatism.
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Out of curiosity, I want to understand your perspective, so here's a hypothetical situation: A man and wife don't believe in church, but think that it's up to each family to grow in God and raise their children to do the same. But they also happen to believe in paedobaptism, and so in the hospital the day the baby is born, the father sprinkles water on the baby, verbally proclaiming that he is baptizing that he is baptizing the baby in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Would you consider that baptism valid?
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As horrifying as that idea seems to me, I would have to say, yes.
Water, and the name of the Trinity are all that is necessary.
That is all I see in Scripture.
Even if the doctrine of the Trinity is false, the Triune God aknowledges the power of His own name in the sacrament.
One might say that "Orthodox Faith" on the part of the minister or parents is neccessary but I do not agree there either.
That is the root of Donatism.