someone stated now... "as a christian i don't believe in infant baptism" well the "first christians did" or

Question

are the only true christians the ones that believe all your doctorines?.... i guess a real christian did even come untill 1700 years after Jesus?

Answer 1

Your question does not, I repeat, Does Not make any sense.

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Answer 2

If your question is whether infant baptism is what they originally did or not - then they did not do it that way at first. Adult baptism was the norm for Christians until about 300AD. The tradition is still carried on through the Roman Catholic Church. Part of the Protestant Reformation dealt with adult vs. infant baptism. The bible is clear that baptism is something that you must decide to do as an outward sign of your Christianity. I don't know any babies that can make a choice about Christianity.

Answer 3

The first Christians DID NOT practice infant baptism. There is nowhere in the Bible where it teaches infant baptism. Infant baptism came about from the Catholic church. They would baptize infants, and if they ever tried to change religions or denominations, they could be tried as a heretic. This way the Catholic church kept their members in line. Look into the Inquisition, the whole argument against people during the Inquisition was that they were heretics for not practicing the Catholicism they were baptized into.

Answer 4

The people that have responded to infant baptism not being mentioned in the Bible are forgetting that nowhere is infant baptism forbidden. Both sides are arguing from silence on the issue, but being "louder" and more prevalent in these responses doesn't make credo baptism correct. There is indirect evidence of infant baptism being performed in the New Testament. The apologetics section of www.reformed.org has more to say on this subject.

Answer 5

The early Christians did not baptize infants. It was too dangerous at that time to be a Christian. One was baptized as adults. They had to prove that they were willing to take the risks of being discovered. The early Christians met for Mass in secret. Those not yet baptized would not stay for the whole service but leave after the homily. This is like the present RCIA that many congregations follow. The RCIA is the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. The candidate leaves Mass after the homily for private instruction. Once they are baptized, they can stay for the whole Mass.

Answer 6

Weren't "real" Christians held from appearing until Joseph Smith had a visit from the Angel?

Or maybe it wasn't until Luther got upset and nailed his Thesis to the church doors.

Or maybe it wasn't till Constantine declared it a valid religion and blessed by the holy roman empire.

Or was it when Peter wrestled control of the Church from Paul?

Or was it when the HS hit the apostles in the upper room?

Or maybe the Jews had it right the whole time?

Or maybe the whole thing is just a bunch of proclamations and stories written by men who didn't understand the world around them and were trying to make sense of it all, and have been doing so ever since........yea thats probably it.

Answer 7

Jesus is the way to salvation...not baptism. I believe that baptism is symbolic to identify with Jesus but its not a requirement. baptising babies I think is more of a blessing on the baby. I don't believe that makes the baby a christian, a decision like that can't be made by parents it has to be an individual decision when the child is old enough to understand what they are doing. All kids, regardless until they reach the age of accountablity go to heaven, whether they are baptised or not.

When comparing religions, we all have our different traditions within, but what it boils down to is who acknowledges Jesus Christ, those who believe he is the Son of God v. those who don't. everything else is trivial.

Answer 8

"Christian" is a generic term. there is no such thing as a "Christian" There are only those who follow Christ, and hipocrates.
The reason a someone chooses to be baptized, is because Jesus was baptized. Baptism is a symbol that we are washing away our old self with Jesus' blood, and becoming new and living our lives in the way Jesus lived his to the best of our ability

Answer 9

Can you show us from Scripture where anyone except professing believers were baptized (not counting the baptisms conducting by John the baptizer which was done to Jews for the remission of sins).

Answer 10

Baptism is for individuals who have accepted Jesus as their personal Savior, and that age varies as to their knowledge of the difference between right and wrong. What a sin is and what isn't a sin.

Children reach the age of accountablilty at different ages so it varies as to what that accountable age is per child. Adults know the difference between right and wrong.

Mental retarted people are the exception because they do not know what those difference are, there for are as little innocent children. Children and babies go to heaven if they should die because they did not know what a sin was, there for did not commit a sin.

Answer 11

There is not one Scripture that says to baptize an infant, that is Catholic Doctrine to raise money for the church. If you have proof, share it please. Zsanctified1 doesn't seem to read the Bible much, try reading Acts 11:26, 26:28, and 1 Peter 4:16.