Let's Talk About Infant Baptism

[Jake Huether]

That's right!

Doesn't St. John tell us at the end of his Gospel that Jesus did MANY other things that AREN'T written down.

If fact, Jesus did so many other things, that if they were all written down, the ENTIRE EARTH wouldn't hold the books!

[cmotherofpirl]

If Jesus did everything listed and only everything listed in the New Testament it would encompass several months of time, primarily spent in hiking around. I doubt if a scribe followed him around with a quill in hand. But the NT covered a timespan of several years.

So if you limit yourself to exactly what is written, you are missing a great deal of christianity. What your missing is the Catholic Church. You are watching a play in a theater, a frozen section of time, instead of being with the author in his home.

[Aloysius]

iiiinteresting debate.. i guess i'll throw my idea into the ring

Jesus said one must be born of water and the spirit.

therefore, in baptism they are born of water, in confirmation they are born in the spirit.

in the NT alot o ppl took baptism and confirmation at the same time, because they were adults, but as the generations moved on the children of the baptized where thus baptized in awaiting their proffesion and their taking for their own the parent's faith-- their confirmation

in Holy Mother Church, we still baptize and confirm at the same time those who are old enough to profess their faith on their own.

He commanded to baptize in the NAME of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

in the Bible, a name represents a very essence, the whole person

therefore in baptism God comes into us, the trinitarian GOD!!! THE LORD!

that includes Jesus

let the children come to Him, and do not hinder them

There is absolutely NO reason not to baptize a child to make him a child of God with the Holy Trinity living in him and then have him complete that faith started by their parents in confirmation

that's my 2 cents

PEACE!