Why is there no account given of a baby being baptized in the Bible ?

Question

And please don't tell me the church has the power to rewrite the Bible.

Born of water and spirit comes when one is born again.The water represents the Word of God not H2o.God word cleanses us.

There is only one account of a family be baptized.The Phillippian jailer.But in Acts 16:34b you will read that "that he set meat before them,and rejoiced, ( believing in God with all his house )" His whole house believed as was the requirement for the Eunuch when he asked Philip what kept him from being baptized,Philip replied if you belive with all your heart you may.Acts7:36-37.I believe the Bible is Fact.

Answer 1

because baptizism is an outward act of an inward choice, before you are baptized you must repent of your sins and turn to God. Baptizism represents the death and resurection of Jesus Christ and that we are joining Him in that death and resurection, and that we are no longer sinners under the old law but new creations in Christ, saved from death and hell and going to heaven.

Answer 2

The real question is - if God had intended to withhold baptism from babies and young children, why doesn't the Bible say so? The Bible tells us that NO-ONE enters the kingdom without being born of water and the spirit, an obvious reference to the waters of baptism. It doesn't say "no-one except babies". Do you believe the Bible or not? The Bible repeatedly tells us that WHOLE FAMILIES were baptized together. It doesn't say "whole families except the young children". Do you believe the Bible, or do you try to make it say what you want it to say? Even though Jesus said that no-one enters the kingdom without baptism, He looked upon a group of little children and said "to these belongs the kingdom of heaven". If baptism is necessary to possess the kingdom, and these little children were in possession of the kingdom, then obviously they were baptized - which one would expect since baptism of children was the norm in the early Church.

If you really want to know historically what happened in the early Church, put down your bible and read some historical accounts. The writings of the early Church Fathers are full of references to infant baptism. One other point - if the Christian Church had not baptized babies from the start, but had introduced the practice at some later date, surely there would have been a lot of debate about such a major change, with abundant writings by people on both sides of the question. Yet, when we look at the historical record we find not even a hint of any discussion of any such introduction of infant baptism. Why do you suppose that is? In the third century however, we do find a written record of one heated debate over infant baptism. The subject of that debate was whether infants should be baptized on the day of their birth, or eight days later. This came about because of the teaching of Paul that baptism under the New Covenant replaces circumcision under the Old Covenant. Circumcision was administered on the eighth day. That's right - to infants.

Answer 3

THE CHURCH HAS THE POWER TO REWRITE THE BIBLE.
Why else do you think that they left out the two most important gospels (gospel of mary magdalene and gospel of judas)? Also most of the testament wasn't written until a hundred years after Jesus' death. Many sects have come up with their one version of the Bible--Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, etc. Also many versions of the bible have been printed (due to translation errors)--King's James, new international, good news, etc.
However, there are accounts of baptism in the Bible. There is an account of Jesus being baptised but when he is older. The story is he asks John to baptize him and john doesn't thinks its necessary because he's Jesus. I'm pretty sure the baptismal ceremony is in leviticus too. However, I think that the vague mention of baptism might be that it is a christian practice (the entire bible is about jews). The Christian church has added a lot of ceremony to their proceedings that has no mention in the Bible. Many Catholic and Protestant churches take a quote by Jesus out of context that make sit sound like you only have to obey the first two of the ten commandments...The ones about only one God and love your neighbour as yourself. "...on these two hang all the law and the prophets." Also, many churchs don't baptize people until they are old enough to decide to do it themselves.
Also baptism likely stems from some pagan tradition.
The church can do whatever they want to the bible.

Answer 4

Being baptized is not just the sprinkle of water on your head. Getting baptized is the whole body emersion going down under the water. When John the baptizer baptized Jesus, Jesus was a grown man who knew what he was doing. His whole body went down under water.
Getting baptize has a big meaning to it. It means to turn around from your former way of life,strip off that old personality and put on the new personality. You are also giving your life to God, you are no longer doing what you want to do, you are now doing everything that God requires of you.
Can a baby understand that?

Answer 5

The baptism of babies wasn't an issue for the early Church. It only became an issue as a more developed doctrine of salvation came about later.
BTW, the church doesn't have the power to rewrite the Bible, but the New Testament was written by the "Church". IOW, the Church as a community of faith in Jesus Christ existed before the New Testament.

Answer 6

You do not baptize babies. They are innocent and have not sinned. Baptism is for the sinner who repents of their sins, and knows the difference between right and wrong. They must be born again and accept Jesus as their savior when they reached the age of accountibility, because they then know what sins they have committed.

Babies automatically go to heaven if they should die. No where in the bible will you read about any babies getting baptized.

Answer 7

I don't want to start a big thing here, but let's keep in mind we're talking about rituals within a Jewish society - whether they were mainstream rites or not is almost incidental. This society assumed, and still assumes, that - aside from the very silly practice of circumcision - a person's effective religious life began when that person had at least a modicum of reason. (Thus the Bar Mitzvah at about the age of 13.)

Or put another way, what is it exactly about the condition of a new-born that bothers a deity?

Answer 8

Friend, Baptism in the Name of Lord Jesus Christ was for new converts, That baptism was to wash away the sins done in the body, No Apostle taught baby baptism, that came along later on by the Catholic church, a baby is not capable to know that he was born in sin, & needs to be baptized. Many Churches today thinks all it is is baptism, There is repenting & Baptism & receiveing the holy Ghost

Answer 9

Christians did not baptize people until they personally accepted Jesus as Savior and Lord. Obviously, a baby can't do that. As the catholic church began to form, several hundred years after Jesus, superstitious people began to fear that their children would not be saved if they died before they were old enough to request baptism on their own. They had begun to believe that the water itself had the power to forgive them. There were always many independent Christian churches who did not allow infant baptism.

Answer 10

With a baby the parents just make a promises to God that they will raise there child by His will and with adults its there own choice to be baptized, give there life to God. No, nobody have the right to over right the Word, its a big sin. I don't know why its not in the bible, but I do know that when the time is right, I would like to give my promise to God to raise my child by His will.

Answer 11

Because that is not a teaching of the Bible. That is a teaching of the Catholic Church. They began baptizing babies and making them Catholic when they were small, so that if they ever tried to change denominations or religions they could be branded as a heretic and brought before the Inquisition. This is one of the methods they used to "keep" people from leaving Catholicism.