Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jhpb@granjon.garage.att.com Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Validity of Baptism Message-ID: Date: 23 Nov 90 07:18:00 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: AT&T Bell Labs (Liberty Corner) Lines: 16 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu David Wagner wrote: I don't see how the working of faith in an infant is any less miraculous than the working of faith in an adult. For Luther's sort of faith to be in an infant requires something specially miraculous because infants don't have the use of their reason. An adult has this capability, an infant does not. If trusting "faith" in Christ is what justifies, there is certainly something miraculous about an infant having this trust in Christ. I thus think infant Baptism is totally incompatible with Luther's ideas about justification. Joe Buehler