Why do baby's get baptized?

Question

Jesus was 33, and the baby doesn't even know what's going on.

But, the baby hasn't committed any sins...

Not ALL christians believe in baptizing babies...

They have to get water sprinkled on their heads to be blessed by God? I've heard it called christening, so it's not baptism? Because I thought you had to be fully imerged in water to be baptized

Answer 1

Babies have no need of baptism. Baptism is "for the remission of sins", "unto the remission of sins", for the forgiveness of sins" or "so that your sins will be forgiven" (Acts 2:38)(depending on which translation you read.)

"Sin is the transgression of the Law". (1 John 3:4) What law has a baby transgressed? What law is a baby even capable of transgressing? The obvious answer is "NONE"!

Also, babies do not inherit the guilt of sin, as some teach. Notice the following verse:

"The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him." (Ezekiel 18:20)

During the judgement, we will each be judged based on what we have done.

"For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad." (2 Corinthians 5:10)

A baby is not capable of doing, or even understanding, anything good or evil. They are in an innocent, safe condition. They have neither sinned, nor inherited sin, therefore they do not need to be baptized.

Also, a baby can not either repent or believe, both of which come before baptism (Mark 16:16, Acts 2:38, Acts 8:36-37).

Answer 2

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Why do baby's get baptized?
Jesus was 33, and the baby doesn't even know what's going on.

Answer 3

Why Do Babies Get Baptized

Answer 4

In instituting the Sacrament of Baptism, Christ made no exceptions. His command was:

"Teach ye all nations, baptizing them, etc."
St. Mark (16:15) likewise makes no exceptions:
"Go into the whole world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who does not shall be condemned."
In this passage Christ speaks plainly and says that UNBELIEF is sufficient to incur damnation but that FAITH does NOT insure salvation unless it is accompanied by baptism. His command in John 3:5 includes all, "Unless a man be born again of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God."
In addition to those examples, there are the 'household" passages where entire families were baptized and where we PRESUME there must have been children in some of them.

These household Scripture texts, however, are relatively weak. But the tradition of the Church is so conclusive that some Protestants lay aside the "Bible alone" principle and baptize infants on the strength of Catholic tradition.

Recent discoveries in the Roman catacombs prove that infant baptism was common in the primitive Church. Thus a certain Murtius Verinus placed on the tomb of his children the inscription: "Verina received (baptism) at the age of ten months, Florina at the age of twelve months."

Above another tomb we read: "Here rests Archillia, a newly-baptized (infant); she was one year and five months old, died February 23rd."

God bless,
Stanbo

Answer 5

Because baptism is always 100% effective at making one an adopted child of God, a temple of the holy spirit, a member of the church, and a co-heir with Jesus Christ ... and anyone would be a fool to put it off one moment longer than necessary.

Nowhere in scripture is infant baptism prohibited.

Baptism at any age was always practiced by the whole church, right up until the time the "reformers" made up their own false faith traditions, around the 15th century.

God desires all to be saved, and his church freely baptizes in order to accomplish his divine will.

Answer 6

Because supposedly when we are born we are born into sin and so we are baptized to get freed from sin and are reborn as sons of God, and we are purified by the water and accept Jesus Christ as our lord and saver. But in some churches it isn't neccessary to baptize an infant because some believe that the baby is pure and is incappable of sin and only baptize older children and adults who want to repent and/or to convert. So it really isn't neccessary to baptize a infant unless that infant was born into sin or of sin, like if the child was concieved during a rape, incest, or if the parents of the child sinned, like a mother who was a prostitute and/or was using drugs during the time the child was concieved.

Answer 7

Man's Tradition

Answer 8

Because some christians started saying that if you weren't baptized you couldn't go to heaven. This lead to the concept of limbo for innocent, unbaptized babies and the concept of infant baptism to get babies past limbo and into heaven. It also led to the theology that anyone can baptize anyone in an emergency - all that is required is intent.

Christians are the craziest people.

Answer 9

Babies get baptized because of whats called "Original Sin" which is simply that everyone inherits the first sin of Adam at birth. Baptism for babies is to make sure the baby is "right with god" However, this is not a bible thing; baby baptisism comes from people, not the Bible.

Answer 10

You are right; baptism of babies is unscriptural. Everyone in the Bible who was baptized was an adult, or at least of the age of reason. Babies are too young to understand. You need to be old enough to understand the doctrine of Christianity and make a conscious decision to accept Christ. A baptized baby can still grow up to be an atheist; then his baptism is pointless.