Luke 3:3, The Rise of the Baptists

And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;

//Today’s verse tells of John baptizing people in the river Jordan. This was done, according to Luke’s Gospel, so that they could repent and be forgiven of their sins.

This seems to imply that only a person aware of their sinful nature, and a believer in Christ, could be properly baptized. In other words, not an infant. Yet over the centuries, infant baptism became very popular.

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