by Fr. John Whiteford From Fr. John Whiteford's "Stump the Priest" series of blogposts. Question: "I have heard that Christ quoted the Septuagint. Is there a listing of these quotes?" It is a generally recognized fact that "the writers of the New Testament used almost exclusively the Greek … [Read more...]
Augustine: Infant Baptism Is The Apostolic And Universal Practice Of The Church
by St. Augustine of Hippo What the universal Church holds, not as instituted by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. Since others respond for children, so that the celebration of the sacrament may be complete for them, … [Read more...]
Calvin Knew Infant Baptism Was Apostolic in Origin
The Orthodox knew it first, but that's beside the point. It's an Apostolic practice. Only the most historically naive or uninformed would doubt it. …But I reply, first of all, that infant baptism is not a recent introduction, nor are its origins traceable to the papal church. For I say that it has … [Read more...]
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