"Porphyry asks, how can a man to wash in this way by so many spots and become pure (katharos)? How is it possible that with the water (in baptism), a man can get rid of your guilt and responsibility? How is it that "fornication, adultery, drunkenness, theft, pederasty, poisoning and endless low and disgusting things" are so easily disposed of "like a snake down his old scales"?The first baptism ceremonies made on children dating back to the early centuries of Christianity in the fourth century there was a crisis of pedobattesimo . It means not only that there had Porfirio was right but also that the pedobattesimo was already a fairly established practice as to cause a stir its crisis. It is not unlikely that the ideas of Porfirio then circulated already in the young Christian society and want to reduce their saving power of baptism. In pedobattesimo, in fact, is the original sin only to be canceled, while all the sins that the person will make certainly will not cover the baptismal font. During the crisis of the fourth, in fact, many Christians were baptized on his deathbed. The subsequent reconsolidation, to become the rule, the practice of pedobattesimo, place the criticism so harshly suppressed by the censors, as in the book of Porphyry.
At this point, "Who would not want to commit all manner of wickedness, knowing it will get through baptism for the forgiveness of his crimes?"
Christian philosophy encourages lawlessness and detract in the law and justice itself, introduces a form of illegal cohabitation and teaches men not to be afraid of impiety.
So in Christianity "who is honest is not called."
course over the centuries has always tried to find shortcuts to recover perdonabilità total from which the invention of the confession (with relevant amendments to repentance of sins), the sale of indulgences and the jubilee years (with the magical crossing of Porto Santo) . Betrayed once Jesus' teaching on baptism as adults, they have never had so many scruples to continue to distort.