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Jesus and the Apostles certainly assumed this.<br />

In the beginning when the converts were adults, we should expect only adult<br />

baptism and they were indeed described in the New Testament history.<br />

However it automatically assumes that the whole family particularly the<br />

minor children were also converted in accordance with the Rabianic teachings<br />

of the time. So How did the Apsotles and the disciples to whom the Great<br />

Commission was given understood the process of conversion? Did it include<br />

children?<br />

All household baptisms in Acts strongly imply that even adult dependents<br />

(leave alone the possibility of minors and infants) of the household allowed<br />

the head of the household to dictate the faith that they were to profess. If this<br />

is the case, then the New Testament Church would seem to have admitted and<br />

baptized members who did not openly professed a personal faith in Jesus<br />

Christ.<br />

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