where does it says ...............?

Question

that babies should get baptized...................in matthew 3:16 it says ..when he had been baptized Jesus CAME UP immediately from the water,................so you see there was no threw water on the baby.....you need to go down to the water in Jesus name.............beside why do babies need to get baptized they have not done sin...and they don't know what they are doing............but in acts 2:38 says it all..........baptized in Jeus name...................

Answer 1

very good point smiles. it was perfect in its simplicity :)

Answer 2

Where does it state in scripture that `Thou must go down into the water or else you are not baptized? the act of baptism is the pouring of water on the head and it would have been madness for the Baptist to try and bring water to the people,much easier to bring the people to the water,and so that how it was done then.
Baptism can be done by any Christian in good faith in the case of an emergency,how the heck are you going to bring a victim of serious road accident for example to a pool of water? to be this dogmatic with the scriptures is no different than the Pharisee`s who bound up the people with dogmatic rules and heaped weights on their backs.
During times of plague and famine Babies were baptized into the family of Christ and you mean to tell me that Christ rejected these little innocents,so their baptism didn`t count because you cannot see that man was not made for the Sabbath,but the Sabbath for man?

Answer 3

Babies do not need to be baptized, or sprinkled. They don't know right from wrong, therefore they don't understand the meaning of sin. Once someone understands what sin is, and then knows that they should obey the Word of God, that's when you should be baptized (immersed) into Christ. For the forgiveness of your sins.

Answer 4

Baptism is simply an outward proclamation of an inward change. It is has no mystical qualities, it is simply a public proclamation of our conversion. We do not baptize to remove sin, sin was taken care of for the believers at the cross. Babies are born with sin and a sin nature.

Psa 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from the belly, speaking lies.
(wicked means:
râshâ‛
raw-shaw'
morally wrong; concretely an (actively) bad person: - + condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong. - which would include all of us before salvation)

Rom 3:23 for all sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Answer 5

Infant Baptism became the custom in the early church.
When families were baptized, all members were included.
They had to take a period of instruction to be baptised.
In case of martyrdom, of parents, children were included.
Christian Baptism is to remove Original Sin.

The Baptism which Jesus received was not the same.
Jesus, of course, had no original sin to repent from.
It was a Jewish (Essene) ritual for 'adult' repentance.
It involved total submersion in the Jordan River.
The Jordan flows from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea.

Answer 6

The bible doesn't state that babies must be baptized. I believe that it should be a conscious decision made by someone a little older. Baptism doesn't get you into heaven. It is only an outward appearance of an inward experience. It should only reflect what has already taken place in your spirit.

Answer 7

baptisms of young children or babies, or not for the benefit of the kids, But for the parents. and the other adults around them. It might be just a show of faith. The ceremony or rite will be forgotten by the child if they register it at all.
The rite is merely the adults chance to promise to bring the child up in the faith. What the child chooses later may be beyond the parents control. But is should be the child's right to choose their own path, what ever it may be

Answer 8

Jesus was 30 when He was baptized.
If babies were to be baptized, then why didn't Mary do it as a child, KNOWING He was the Messiah?

Answer 9

Baptism (from the greek word Baptizo meaning to fully immerse in water) is an act of obedience bodly proclaiming yourself as one of Christ's and should immediately follow true repentance and conversion. The doctrine of infant "christening" is barbaric. It causes confusion. Dedicate your child to the Lord by annointing him with oil and praying over him... that's fine... but don't call it baptism and don't teach anyone that it takes away origional sin.

Answer 10

baptizing babies is an abomination. children are innocent. and sprinkling water on someone's head does not constitute as baptism. baptism is something we must choose for ourselves if we want it. how can a baby do that?

Answer 11

all of you saying it should be a "conscious decision" are the same people that say "...all you need is jesus in your heart and you can go the heaven..." then beat into the heads of your children the fear of going to hell for not believing what YOU BELIEVE... why don't you let your own children grow up so they can make a conscious decision that is not distorted by your bias...
and after you do that, you can stop trashing a tradition that you know very little about.