Religion
Baptize Your Babies!
Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
Why was infant baptism common practice for the first 1500 years of Christianity?
Well, the answer is simple.
Baptism replaced the old physical sign of being a believer, circumcision. When was circumcision done amongst the Jews? When they were babies. Why can people not be baptized twice? For the same reason you can’t be circumcised twice.
The sweet softness of the New Covenant replaced the harshness of the Old Covenant.
Those of the Anabaptist or Baptist faiths, mostly located in America, deny the simple history and theology of infant baptism because they claim “infant baptism is not in the Bible!”
It’s not?
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins. For the promise is unto you, and to your children… (Acts 2:38–39)
There were five entire households baptized in the Bible (Acts 10, Acts 16x2, Acts 18, 1 Corinthians 1)! Not one included a child? Among the 120 people baptized at Pentecost, not one was a child?
