If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
If you don't believe it you won't understand it.
Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought that infants ought not be baptized before the eighth day after their birth. . . . He agreed with certain of his fellow bishops that a child is able to be duly baptized as soon as he is born.
A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.
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