I'm not "throwing out" Luther, but as much as he was the lynchpin of the Reformation, he was not the entirety of it. There was a lot of re-baptism that went on during the early Reformation as a result of the disagreement over paedeobaptism in favour of credobaptism. If there hadn't been, there never would have been the record of the Reformers disagreements over the practice.
While I am inclinded to agree with your conclusion about the depth of George Washington's faith, I still disagree with a statement that implies that all Christian find re-baptism a "horror". After all, there is, in fact, an example of re-baptism in the New Testament (Acts 19).
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Re: Re-Baptism
Date: 2009-12-19 04:29 pm (UTC)I'm not "throwing out" Luther, but as much as he was the lynchpin of the Reformation, he was not the entirety of it. There was a lot of re-baptism that went on during the early Reformation as a result of the disagreement over paedeobaptism in favour of credobaptism. If there hadn't been, there never would have been the record of the Reformers disagreements over the practice.
While I am inclinded to agree with your conclusion about the depth of George Washington's faith, I still disagree with a statement that implies that all Christian find re-baptism a "horror". After all, there is, in fact, an example of re-baptism in the New Testament (Acts 19).