My church baptizes young children/ infants with good reason: Whoever "shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone be hanged about his neck and he be drowned in the depths of the sea." (Matthew 18:6 - King James version) To offend the child would be to think that he couldn't believe and/or not baptize him/her.
The Kingdom of God belongs to the children and "forbid them not," (Mark 10:14 - King James) because they have a simple faith and believe without questioning. Forbidding them would be to hold off baptizing or keep them from going to church, etc.
"Out of the mouth of babes ... thou hast perfected praise." (Matthew 21:16 - King James Bible).
"I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes." (Matthew 11:25)
The Anabaptists will re-baptize someone who was baptized as an infant.
ReplyDeleteAdult baptism is still a good practice for those believers who were not baptized as children.
"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding." Proverbs 3:5