baptismal regeneration was an early and pervasive belief in the organized church. they went so far as to refuse baptism until their deathbeds, believing that sins after baptism could not be forgiven, because baptism was the only mechanism that forgives sins and could only be done once. the thinking is what led to the practice of infant baptism as well, as the rite became a kind of idol, to the point that a theology developed in which belief and actions didn't matter at all, only the baptism itself.
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