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  • More about Origen on Infant Baptism

    Here are some quotes from Origen on infant baptism, including the quote I used in my last post about Origen: 1. In his Homilies on Luke (XIV on 2:22a) he remarks “therefore children also are baptized”. 2. In his Homilies on Leviticus (VIII 3 on 12.2) he says baptism is given “according to custom of the Church, to infants… Continue reading

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  • Origen on Infant Baptism

    “For this reason, moreover, the Church received from the apostles the tradition of baptizing infants too.”  – Origen, Commentary on Romans, (ca.244 A.D.) “Origen could, of course, have been wrong about the apostolic origins of infant baptism. He was writing, it must be recalled, the best part of two centuries after the time of the apostles, and… Continue reading

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  • Oh look. Yet. Another. Blog.

    “What has been will be again,what has been done will be done again;there is nothing new under the sun.” The writer of the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes (1:9) got it right, and this blog is proof. Doesn’t the world have enough blogs as it is? Aren’t blogs an outdated way of getting your “message”… Continue reading