Greg Anderson

Thank you for your replies Gengwall & Kristen! (#’s 82 & 83)
As far as I can determine from well over 700 comments now (counting the previous thread), it’s largely a question of Biblical interpretation. Aside from the essentials, who has THE right interpretation? Does it even have to have one?

Elastigirl #87~ You wrote:

“…As far as doing everything ”by the book” — sometimes I think christians feel that to be fully living their life for God, as much as is possible, requires embracing every word in their own Bibles (certainly the New Testament) as binding on their lives. For example, churches conduct baby dedications simply because that’s what Mary and Joseph did with Jesus. Does this make it necessary for us? Part of what it means to be a christian? I really don’t think so…”
And some churches will swear up and down that child baptism and dedications are wrong. Thank you for your entire comment Elastigirl! (#87) You have articulated well what I could not at the time.