What is the Catholic teaching on 1 Cor. 1:8?

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Benny12 said:
So the infant does not have to know God’s Word, know the sacrifice of Christ and not even believe
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Didn’t Jesus tell the paralytic his sins were forgiven becuase of the faith of his friends?
 
If Jesus cleanses a person of sin becuase of the faith of his friends, then why can’t He do the same for a child because of the faith of his/her parents?
 
fhansen said:
Yes, but still without totally overwhelming or predetermining it when it comes to ones salvation.
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Then how can we be sure “And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” Phil 1:6 ESV

and “Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,” Jude 24 ESV

Do we bring the work to completion ourselves by an act of the will or does God bring us to completion by an act of His will?

Do we keep ourselves from stumbling and present ourselves as blameless by an act of our will or does God keep us from stumbling and present us blameless by an act of His will?
 
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Benny12 said:
So the infant does not have to know God’s Word, know the sacrifice of Christ and not even believe

But still is baptized and starts salvation?
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Julius_Caesar said:
Because that is the initiation of a member in the covenant.

Baptism in the New Covenant is what circumcision was in the Old.
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And because the infant possesses a human nature deprived of original holiness (cf. Rm 5:12).
 
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Before a person can believe he or she must have the intellectual capacity to do so. If you were correct wouldn’t that mean that individuals who died before the age of reason would have no salvation?
 
Which still isn’t in Scripture that baptism is for those above age 7.
 
Forgiveness came to an individual because of the faith of his friends.
 
Forgiveness of sins gives salvation.
 
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There’s nowhere in Scripture that says you must be a certain age to be baptized. That’s infactual.
 
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I’ve also heard the argument from Protestants that baptism isn’t necessary becuase of people like the good thief contrary to Jesus’s words.

THAT’S amazing.
 
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Against Titus 3, John 3, and Romans 6.

Another area where you toss aside what Scripture clearly says.
 
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It literally says they baptized HOUSEHOLDS. Meaning, EVERYONE IN THAT HOUSE.
 
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Even your guys Luther and Calvin saw baptism in this passage.

This has been the understanding for 2000 years. So it seems Christianity had it wrong all along.
 
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So the times it’s mentioned without baptism discounts the times that mentioned with it.

Nice logic.
 
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Acts 2:38. You receive the HS when you receive baptism.
 
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You can’t separate faith from any of those other things. Your faith grows as a result of them.
 
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It’s a red flag because I defend my Church, but it’s not a red flag when you veer from the plain meaning of Scripture.

I’m out this conversation.
 
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