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Luke 1:15 is a prophecy describing John being filled with the Holy Spirit while still in his mother's womb.
nope
Your doubts are not evidence for or against infant baptism neither are they definitive for Christian praxis.
But males were (still are) circumcised on the 8th day after birth as a sign of membership in God's covenant community.
I expect that God did honor that.
That's OK. Whatever is not done in faith is sin. (Rom 14:23)
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Then why not follow the teaching of the Church since it's beginning instead of whatever any Tom, Dick, or Harriet (all devoid of a sound theological education) says.
When people who are untrained in theology and the practices of the Church since the beginning start expounding their unlearned (ignorant) opinions, it seems to me that it is precisely a "foolish and ignorant dispute" in which no one will change his mind and which will only generate dissent and division.
Of course, as a devout hypocrite, I have put my 2 cents in above at post #66 thus adding to the abundance of "foolishness and ignorance." (Will I EVER learn!!???
iakov the fool
And, please, just don't put mayonnaise on that hot dog.
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Then why not follow the teaching of the Church since it's beginning instead of whatever any Tom, Dick, or Harriet (all devoid of a sound theological education) says.
When people who are untrained in theology and the practices of the Church since the beginning start expounding their unlearned (ignorant) opinions, it seems to me that it is precisely a "foolish and ignorant dispute" in which no one will change his mind and which will only generate dissent and division.
Of course, as a devout hypocrite, I have put my 2 cents in above at post #66 thus adding to the abundance of "foolishness and ignorance." (Will I EVER learn!!???
iakov the fool
And, please, just don't put mayonnaise on that hot dog.
Of course not!
I doubt most people would "google" how to do an appendectomy and then try it on their mothers.
Except for when people ask specific questions and are legitimately looking for answers, my experience in forums is that, rather than serious thought, the normal responses are along the lines of: "You're wrong!" No! YOU'RE wrong!"
Where did you get the notion about what "Theologians universally teach"?
Is that your expert opinion?
One would hope that people who have dedicated their lives to the study of the Word of God would, from time to time, be able to "shed a little light."
It is my experience that, more and more, people are not taught HOW to think. (An abject failure of our education system) ACademis seems to be more interested in teaching students WHAT to think and then asking them to express how the "feel" about the ideology to which they have been subjected.
Exactly.
But leading God's people eternal life can just be "googled" by any grammar school dropout?
"Personal interpretation" is the foremost basis of heresy.
"ALL" of them?
Look for yourself THEN tell me I'm wrong.
You stated that ALL theologians (ever last one that ever lived) said the same thing.
You said: "Theologians universally teach we are higher/better than John the Baptist. They are universally wrong."