Infant baptism

[ItIsFinished!]

You have already been given examples of entire households being baptized.

But, not one Scripture that teaches infant baptism.
May I ask , do you think baptism saves the souls of individuals?

 

[anna ~ grace]

Just curious for those that believe in infant baptism, sprinkling, etc where did this idea come from since Jesus himself was not baptized until he was around 29-30?

My husband is very strongly in favor of believers' baptism. It is interesting to me that all of the Apostolic Churches, even if they disagree on Christology, ecclesiology, and who got what right, baptize infants. None of them have any issue with that.

 

[ItIsFinished!]

My husband is very strongly in favor of believers' baptism. It is interesting to me that all of the Apostolic Churches, even if they disagree on Christology, ecclesiology, and who got what right, baptize infants. None of them have any issue with that.

What does baptism represent?

 

[anna ~ grace]

Infant Baptism — Church Fathers

 

[ItIsFinished!]

Infant Baptism — Church Fathers

What does God's Holy Word have to say about infant baptism?

 

[Yarddog]

The practice seems to have originated with Scripture, where it talks of a man being baptized with his household and the assumption is that there were young children in his home.

There are three places in scripture where whole households are baptized. Acts 16 has two and 1 Cor. 1 has one.

 

[ItIsFinished!]

What is the point of baptism?

 

[Basil the Great]

I did a quick Google search. Unless someone can find an earlier reference, the first explicit writing on infant Baptism was by Tertullian in a treatise on Baptism, apparently written between 200 and 206. This proves nothing one way or the other, but I felt it was important to mention.

 

[Not David]

Maybe , maybe not.
Regardless it isn't Scriptural.

No, you just don't like the explanations they gave you.

 

[Not David]

What is the point of baptism?

Baptism for the remission of sins, and entering into the New Covenant. All in the Bible.

 

[ItIsFinished!]

No, you just don't like the explanations they gave you.

Thanks for your opinion, but you are wrong.

 

[ItIsFinished!]

Baptism for the remission of sins, and entering into the New Covenant. All in the Bible.

Oh, so the shed blood of Jesus Christ isn't a remission or atonement for our sins , but rather baptism?
I 100% disagree.
Oh, and not all in the Bible regarding what you stated.

 

[anna ~ grace]

No, you just don't like the explanations they gave you.

It does seem to me that folks interpreting Scripture 2,000 years after Scripture was written would not be better at figuring out the context than those folks who lived and worshipped in the generations after the Apostles.

 

[Not David]

Thanks for your opinion, but you are wrong.

Infant baptism is biblical and Christian and it is not an opinion but a fact.

 

[ItIsFinished!]

It does seem to me that folks interpreting Scripture 2,000 years after Scripture was written would not be better at figuring out the context than those folks who lived and worshipped in the generations after the Apostles.

And what context would that be regarding infant baptism?

 

[ItIsFinished!]

Infant baptism is biblical and Christian and it is not an opinion but a fact.

100 % NOT fact , but merely your opinion .

 

[Not David]

Oh, so the shed blood of Jesus Christ isn't a remission or atonement for our sins , but rather baptism?
I 100% disagree.
Oh, and not all in the Bible regarding what you stated.

Christ's death and resurrection liberated us from the bondage of death, sin and the devil.

 

[ItIsFinished!]

Oh, so the shed blood of Jesus Christ isn't a remission or atonement for our sins , but rather baptism?
I 100% disagree.
Oh, and not all in the Bible regarding what you stated.

 

[Not David]

It does seem to me that folks interpreting Scripture 2,000 years after Scripture was written would not be better at figuring out the context than those folks who lived and worshipped in the generations after the Apostles.

They say they were just fallible men but ironically they think they are infallible themselves.

 

[ItIsFinished!]

Christ's death and resurrection liberated us from the bondage of death, sin and the devil.

Ok, but not baptism.