Yet Jesus said that He and the Father would come and make a home within all who believe in and obey Him. The He sent the Holy Spirit in many examples that we can read for ourselves. Those traditions you speak of are traditions of men taking Gods power for themselves to lord over men; very similar to the Jewish leaders that Jesus so often spoke against.
@RobertWeidner11@MrCasey62 That’s your argument for what scripture states? You’re reaching.
If Paul states that my faith allows my unbelieving wife to be ‘made holy’, would my children not be as well until they are of age to make a decision?
@MarcoFoster_@jamestalarico@TeamTalaricoHQ The bible does say you shouldn’t kill. Other writers of the time actually spoke on abortion as well. Barnabas did. The Didache does as well. The early Christians knew it was murder and against God.
This is too often a position taken out of one's own pride. What was God's plan after Jesus' resurrection?
The upper room, Pentecost, the baptising of the 3,000; this was the beginning of the local church. The book of Acts was the beginning of the story of the building of the Church, with local churches. The Epistles, all of them, were letters to local churches to build up and equip them for ministry of their own.
We are, as believers, part of the Body of Christ. We, therefore, should commune with one another, build one another up, console one another, protect one another from sinful ways. Yes, we're all different, with differing ideas and opinions and that is what makes it all the more beautiful
@kathiliko_bette@MrCasey62 There was much that was commanded of the Israelites, and they proved time and time again that they could not accomplish any of it. Jesus fulfilled the Old Covenant. This has little to nothing to do with baptising babies.
@chris_jolliff What Christians? Our church mentions it often and throughout the year. It was the beginning of the local church, the beginning of the gift of the Holy Spirit to those who believe. It is not negated in value to a single day.
@CatholicDrip___ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God....Who is the Word? Where did the very words of Scripture come from?
@EstebanRafaelJr Yet their epistles were written 30-45 years or more after her passing away. If her assumption were true, would it not have been included in their letters to the churches? What a case for Christ! But they did not.
@CatholicCo200 No one. And she passed 30-40 years prior to the writing of the epistles. With all of the apostles there after she passed, they surely would have included her assumption into Heaven when writing, if it were true. What a case for Christ it would have been!