Originally Posted By: gims
Oh, I'm aware of how it was established for the faithful... I was zeroing in on the baptism of infants. I guess I should have asked, How/when did God give the directive to baptize babies/children?
As it pertains to baptizing children, I'm assuming we are to read that 'household' covers them in the scriptures provided. It's not explicit as to whether the the households were baptized by choice, nor if it was 'required' of them through familial associations. Is there a piece of doctrine that supports the practice that you know of? In all of my Bible reading/studying, or other learning, I've never come across scriptural support (not that I've been looking for it).


The baptism of babies/children is a tradition coming from the Apostles. Where do they find the justification for the tradition? One would be through Matthew 19:14 because the implication in contrast would effectively mean a Church in which little children are forbidden to enter as full members, would no longer be the Kingdom of Him who said: "Let the children come to me...". Why Apostolic tradition and not by Jesus? I think if we view it from Biblical and historical account, in Jesus' time, there were no cradle Christians and the Apostolic Christian Church did not come to fruition until after Resurrection.
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