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*Acts 11:14-18... "he shall speak words to you by which you will be saved, you and all your house."

So Cornelius' infant children were saved that day? How- did they understand and believe? Or was it by proxy? Or were they all saved (Cornelius included) just by the very fact they listened to the words? (as an unqualified reading of the text might suggest).


*Acts 16:31-34 And they said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you and your house." And they spoke the word of the Lord to him together with all who were in his house. And he took them that very hour of the night and washed their wounds, and immediately he was baptized, he and all his house. And he brought them into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, having believed in God with his whole house.

So "all his household," including infants, were saved (v. 31) by believing (v. 34)? News to me.

I won't bother to quote the rest of the verses supplied above, because the same reasoning applies: if we're going to be consistent, on a purely linguistic level if we suppose that infants were baptized we must suppose they believed and were saved as well.

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