The Patristics - Flame

Irenaeus taught it

Athanasius taught it

Even Origen taught it

Cyprian of Carthage taught it

And Chrysostom taught it

St. Augustine taught it

The Martyr Justin taught it

Hippolytus taught it

Basil the Great taught it

The Didache taught it

Nicene Creed taught it

And Ambrose yea he taught it

And Jerome taught it

Cyril of Jerusalem taught it

Paul and Peter taught it

Because Jesus taught it

Family it’s clearly unanimous

Baptism truly is regenerative

Go study them early Patristics (like Clement and Polycarp)

The position is really ubiquitous

He told me we’re giving tradition too much authority let’s see what the Bible

say

Then he started quoting his denomination’s tradition to see what the Bible say

I told him the goal was look at those

Who wrote closer to the 1st century

And see what they taught on the topic

They were not as far removed as you and me

Then you discovered the fact

Some of the early text

Some of them dating back

A.D. 80 facts

People like the Shepard Hermas

Taught baptism’s where He saves us at

Then you find people like Origen

3rd century and even that boy taught it

Then here comes Zwingli again

Swinging again

To the other extreme

Changing unanimous things

The Church believed for the first 1600 (years)

Irenaeus taught it

Athanasius taught it

Even Origen taught it

Cyprian of Carthage taught it

And Chrysostom taught it

St. Augustine taught it

The Martyr Justin taught it

Hippolytus taught it

Basil the Great taught it

The Didache taught it

Nicene Creed taught it

And Ambrose yea he taught it

And Jerome taught it

Cyril of Jerusalem taught it

Paul and Peter taught it

Because Jesus taught it

You’re simply not going to find not one Church Father that made the confession

That what baptism really is

An outward sign of an inward expression

It’s not in the Bible and scripture don’t teach it

American pulpits

Most people preach it

Wanna know what baptism really is

1st Peter 3 verse 20−21

Go read it

Baptism saves remission of sins

A means of grace to get you cleansed

Faith receives it

Based on Jesus’s work

The ancient church believed it

Why you think some delayed baptism

NoCap like Cappadocian Fathers

Believed so much baptism did save

Just to be safe they’d push it back farther

Even people liked Tertullian believed that the act of baptism did save

The man didn’t believe original sin

So bypass the baby Baptism and do it later

Yes we repent receive by faith

Forgiveness connect to means of grace

The Word and Water will clean our slate

Read Acts chapter 2 verse 38 and 39

Irenaeus taught it

Athanasius taught it

Even Origen taught it

Cyprian of Carthage taught it

And Chrysostom taught it

St. Augustine taught it

The Martyr Justin taught it

Hippolytus taught it

Basil the Great taught it

The Didache taught it

Nicene Creed taught it

And Ambrose yea he taught it

And Jerome taught it

Cyril of Jerusalem taught it

Paul and Peter taught it

Because Jesus taught it