Thread: Does an infant have FAITH?? Heb 11:1,6: Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see..Without FAITH it is impossible to please God!"
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Does an infant have FAITH?? Heb 11:1,6: Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see..Without FAITH it is impossible to please God!"
Posted : 30 Aug, 2011 12:32 PM
Does an infant have FAITH???
Hebrews 11:1,6: Now faith is being sure of what we:rolleyes: hope for and certain of what we do not see...Without FAITH it is IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD, because anyone who comes to Him MUST BELIEVE that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him!"
It is impossible for an infant to have FAITH that God exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.
Romans 10:17: "Faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the WORD of Christ!"
And it is impossible for an infant to receive Faith by hearing and understanding the message!!
I Peter 1:23,24: For you:rolleyes: have been born again... through the Living and enduring Word of God...and the Word of the Lord stands forever, and this is the Word that was preached to you.":applause:
And so a person is born again by hearing and understanding the Word of God which is impossible for an infant.
John 1:11-13: "To all who received Him {Jesus}, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God--children born not of natural descent, *NOR OF HUMAN DECISION* or a husband's will {Such as child baptism}, but BORN OF GOD!":applause:
Grace is God's unmerited favor.
Ephesians 2:8-10: "For it by grace you:rolleyes: have been saved, through faith--and this is NOT from *YOURSELVES*, it is the *GIFT* of God--not by works {Including infant baptism}, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.":angel::applause:
The Satanic idea of Baptismal Regeneration is so ridiculous that it is not even worthy of consideration. That some Satanic Priest saves you by sprinkling you with some water??
Anyone who is truly Born of God and receives the FREE GIFT of Faith will of course by very anxious to obey all of the approximately 400 commands in the NT including the command to be baptized.
Luke 3:15,16: John the Baptist said, "I baptize you with water, But one more powerful than I will come, the throngs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you:rolleyes: with the Holy Spirit and with fire!":applause::angel:
Does an infant have FAITH?? Heb 11:1,6: Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see..Without FAITH it is impossible to please God!"
Posted : 30 Aug, 2011 03:49 PM
David had a child die, and he comforted himself with the thought, �Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me� (2 Samuel 12:23). David knew that he would see his child in heaven one day.
Exodus 30:
11: And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
12: When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
13: This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
14: Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.
15: The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
16: And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
God commanded those who were twenty years old and above to pay a ransom for their souls because anyone nineteen years and below were consider by God to be children and were under the protective head of the household. If he was only nineteen he was not old enough to pay a ransom for his own soul, he was still covered under his father�s ransom.
God will confirm this again in two other places of scripture. I am a firm believer in the "two witness theory," which is that there should be at least two scriptures to verify any Bible teaching that we use. Otherwise it could just be our own conjecture.
God delivered Israel out of the bondage of Egypt taking them almost immediately to the Promised Land. In just a few weeks they had tempted God ten different times provoking him to anger. The straw that broke the camel�s back was when they refused to enter the Promised Land after all he had gone through to get them there. He had promised to deliver them and bring them to it, but it was up to them to obey his will and go in, they refused.
He decided to punish them by allowing them to die in the Wilderness. Israel was condemned to wander for the next forty years in the Wilderness while these people died. But God did not sentence everyone to die in the Wilderness. Along with Joshua, Caleb and their families he spared the children of those that had sinned against him. Anyone who was twenty years and older was condemned to die in the Wilderness because God held them accountable for their sin against him. But God in his mercy spared the children. Anyone who was nineteen years and under were spared and not held accountable because God saw them as children. Here are some of the scriptures to confirm this.
Num 14:29: Your carcasses� shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
We can tell that he would destroy those who were twenty and older and spare those who were nineteen years and younger but, how does this prove accountability? Maybe he just picked a random number to spare and went by that? Well let�s look in Deuteronomy and see what it says concerning their accountability.
Deu 1:39: Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
This scripture is speaking of the same time that we just read about in Numbers 14:29. It is speaking of all Israel who was considered by the Lord to not be held accountable for the sins of Israel. In this verse he says because they had no knowledge between good and evil. This clearly shows us that in God�s view anyone who is under twenty years old is insufficient when it comes to making decisions about what is good and evil. He did not hold them accountable for themselves, but why so old? Nineteen years old, isn�t that stretching it a little bit? Before we are finished we will explain why, but God is telling us in these scriptures that a "child" is a person who is age 19 or younger.
In recent studies on the human brain they have made some amazing discoveries. One of these discoveries pertains to teenagers and the development of their brains. The physical development of the teenager�s body seemed to tell us that they are almost adult but this fact can be very deceiving when it comes to the way we treat our children. Many young boys and girls at sixteen at often times are taller and bigger than their own parents which can cause us to think that they are a lot more mature than they really are. According to recent discoveries in medical science they have proven that the brain of a teenager, no matter how much they seem to mature in appearance, doesn�t completely develop until they are almost twenty years old. This occurs because of the development of the prefrontal lobe of the brain.
Does an infant have FAITH?? Heb 11:1,6: Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see..Without FAITH it is impossible to please God!"
Posted : 30 Aug, 2011 05:16 PM
In the NT, children who die before the age of 12; when one of their parents is a true born again believer; will probably be saved as per I Corinthians 7:14: "For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her unbelieving husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy." Actually in God's Word a male child becomes a man at age 12.
