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I attended a baptism last Saturday for an eight-year-old. One of the speakers made the comment that baptism will wash this child\u2019s sins away.<\/p>\n

In Moro. 8:8, Mormon told Moroni that the Lord said the following:<\/p>\n

Behold, I came into the world not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance; the whole need no physician, but they that are sick; wherefore, little children are whole, for they are not capable of committing sin; wherefore the curse of Adam is taken from them in me, that it hath no power over them<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If little children are whole and not capable of committing sin, how can baptism wash away their sins?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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