Why do people baptize their infants, if there's an 'age of reason'? Is it fear? What is the age of reason?

Answer 1

The fear factor obviously plays a heavy role when your mind is steeped in mythology......

Answer 2

Baptized at What Age?

Jesus’ words at Matthew 28:19, 20 show that it is those who have been made his disciples that should be baptized. Hence, it follows that no infant or small child could meet the Scriptural requirements for baptism. An infant could not exercise faith in God’s Word, in God the Creator, and in his Son Jesus Christ. An infant could not understand that the holy spirit is God’s active force; nor could it repent of past sins and make a solemn vow to do God’s will.

Answer 3

Due to effects of original sin, all are born in a spiritual state that is alienated from God, and lacking sanctifying grace.

Baptism remedies that problem ... and no where in scripture is infant baptism prohibited.

Infant baptism is also the only baptism which requires ABSOLUTELY NO WORKS AT ALL by the baptized, in order to obtain salvation, as everything is done FOR the infant, and nothing is done BY the infant.

Even faith is provided .... by the Church ... because God desires all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Baptism truly saves, and the Holy Spirit, who takes up residence in the soul at baptism, is truth himself!

Salvation totally without works ... in the Catholic Church ... what a concept!

The age of reason comes into play only when intent to commit sin is evaluated.

One who has not yet reached the age of reason is not held liable for their sins.

Answer 4

I believe the age of reason is age 12. Thinking it is the age that Jesus started teaching in the synagoge. The belief that if he could understand right from wrong at that age then it would be considered age of accountability. I don't have a clue why some religions baptize infants if they read from the same bible.

Answer 5

For what other reason they do it, it is false doctrine. It isn't taught in the Bible, and babies are born WITHOUT SIN. When the Authorized Version, better known as the King James Version, was being translated, baptize came from the Greek word "baptizo" and literally means, "to dip, to immerse, to plunge." This is the only baptism that is mentioned in the Bible. Baptism is only those who have reached the "age of accountability". It is pointed out that the examples given in the New Testament are always of those who have heard the Gospel preached and have believed it. Faith must always precede baptism, so only those old enough to understand and believe the Gospel are considered fit subjects for baptism.

Answer 6

The age of reason has to do with personal culpability for sin. It has nothing to do with baptism. The reason Christ's Church has baptized infants from the very beginning is the words of Christ Himself, who told us that NO-ONE can enter the kingdom unless he be born of water and the spirit, through baptism. Protestants deny these words of Christ, due to their new, watered-down definition of baptism. The Christian Church, for 1,500 years after Christ, baptized infants because baptism makes us children of God and heirs of heaven. It establishes sanctifying grace in the soul of the recipient. It washes away all traces of sin, as the Bible tells us. This is the meaning of baptism in true and complete Christianity. In Protestantism however, baptism has become nothing but a symbolic gesture, something we do to demonstrate our faith in God. In Actuality, baptism, like all the sacraments, is something GOD does in us, which fundamentally changes us.

The Bible tells us repeatedly that the entire families of new converts were baptized together. It doesn't say "except children". But Protestant tradition is more important than biblical truth it seems.
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Answer 7

Those who baptize infants do not believe in the "age of accountability." Those are two different practices and beliefs. Catholics and Presbyterians practices pedobaptism. Baptists and most non-denominational churches have "believers baptism."

Answer 8

I was visiting a church that baptized infants and the pastor said that it was because the Bible says suffer the little children to come unto me.

Answer 9

Because it is said in the bible that baptism is for you, your children and your children's children. Catholics and other baby dippers think that this means to baptize babies. But then, you should ask these people, how are you supposed to baptize your children's unborn children?

The passage means that the act of baptism is not only for you, but for all of your descendants. But, leave it to the Catholics to find another way to capitalize on faith. They already corrupted the 10 commandments by OMITTING the second commandment and breaking the 10th into two separate commandments, just so that they can worship idols.

Answer 10

It's a false teaching that has continued for centuries. Jewish children were not expected to accept religious responsibility until they were thirteen, as you say an "age of reason". Men were still considered boys until thirty years of age.

Answer 11

I'm assuming it might be to assure their salvation or something, something along the lines of fear and precaution. My religion baptizes at eight years, the age of accountability by our reckoning. I've also heard somewhere around twelve to be it.