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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Baptism
		Baptism is, therefore, the sacrament by which we are born again of water and the Holy Ghost, that is, by which we receive in a new and spiritual life, the dignity of adoption as sons of God and heirs of God's kingdom.
		From the foregoing it is evident that not all baptism administered by heretics or schismatics is invalid.
		Moreover, baptism can more readily be applied to infants than the rite of circumcision, and by the ancient law this ceremony had to be deferred till the eighth day after birth, while baptism can be bestowed upon infants immediately after they are born, and in case of necessity even in their mother's womb.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02258b.htm (15419 words)

	Of Infant Baptism - John Owen
		But the children of believers are all of them capable of the grace signified in baptism, and some of them are certainly partakers of it, namely, such as die in their infancy (which is all that can be said of professors): therefore they may and ought to be baptized.
		Infants are made for and are capable of eternal glory or misery, and must fall, dying infants, into one of these estates for ever.
		That baptism is not a sign of the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, is clear from hence, because an instituted sign is a sign of gospel grace participated, or to be participated.
	www.apuritansmind.com /Baptism/OwenJohnInfantBaptism.htm (3900 words)

	Infant Baptism
		This is the basis of Paul’s reference to baptism as "the circumcision of Christ"—that is, the Christian equivalent of circumcision.
		If infant baptism were not the rule, then we should have references to the children of Christian parents joining the Church only after they had come to the age of reason, and there are no such records in the Bible.
		Although infants are included in the law he establishes, requirements of that law that are impossible to meet because of their age are not applicable to them.
	www.catholic.com /library/Infant_Baptism.asp (2023 words)

	A Contemporary Reformed Defense of Infant Baptism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Baptism is the means of spiritual renewal and initial justification and sanctification through the infusion of grace received in it, in such a way that one cannot be saved ordinarily without it.
		Baptism is a sign of being united to him in his death by faith.
		Covenant baptism should be sharply distinguished from the unfortunate practices of those churches who baptize children regardless of the spiritual state of the parents.
	public.csusm.edu /public/guests/rsclark/Infant_Baptism.html (9214 words)

	Infant baptism
		Those who say that they know infant baptism is not true because it is not recorded in the Bible, have made a potentially fundamental error in biblical examination.
		Whether or not infants understood what was occurring in their participation of the covenant sign is immaterial since it was God who ordered that the infants be included in the Abrahamic covenant.
		Infants in the Abrahamic covenant in Old Testament times were not guaranteed salvation anymore than infants baptized into the same covenant today are promised salvation.
	www.mslick.com /infant.htm (1578 words)

	Infant Baptism
		Baptism is not just a symbolic testimony of what God has done in the heart of an adult believer, but is in itself a dynamic means of actually effecting the power of the Gospel (the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ) in a life (Romans 6:4).
		Although several examples exist from the third century of the children of Christians being baptized as infants, in all of the literature and collections of inscriptions from that century there is not a single example of Christian parents delaying the baptism of their children.
		Many times the debate regarding infant baptism is a defensive one; those who propose that adult baptism is the only valid form challenge those who practice infant baptism to prove that it is an acceptable practice.
	www.goarch.org /en/ourfaith/articles/article7067.asp (3886 words)

	Infant baptism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They also point to discussions of infant salvation in the first three centuries and the observations of later writers that infant baptism was the tradition of the church strongly suggests that the practice was established in the earliest days of church history.
		Infant baptism is particularly illustrative of the Methodist doctrine of prevenient grace.
		Children baptized as infants or toddlers are often asked to "confirm" their baptismal vows, when they are roughly between 11-14 years of age, by publicly affirming their faith through the use and acceptance of the Apostles' Creed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Infant_baptism (3855 words)

	Infant Baptism
		Consequently, as the teaching of baptismal regeneration started being propagated, it was natural for those holding to this doctrine to believe that everyone, should be baptized as soon as possible.
		Thus, baptism of infants still in the innocent state (and as yet unaccountable for their actions) came into vogue among many of the churches.
		The ancient historian Bryant (vol.3 p2l,84) traces this pagan baptism back to the practice of commemorating Noah and his 3 sons deliverance thru the waters of the flood, emerging from the ark and entering a New life.
	www.gospelcenterchurch.org /Infantbaptism.html (3561 words)

	Jonathan Edwards on Infant baptism
		Neither tradition affirmed baptismal regeneration, nor even the inevitable regeneration of the infant, nor were they even unanimous on the matter of all children dying in infancy being elect.
		There can be no question that infant baptism is taken very seriously by him and apparently interpreted so with reference to the parents as well as the children.
		Let parents pity their poor children because they are without baptism; and pity themselves who are in danger of everlasting misery, while they have no interest in the covenant of grace, and so have no right to covenant favours and honours, for themselves nor children.
	www.apuritansmind.com /Baptism/EdwardsJonathanInfantBaptismGerstner.htm (4500 words)

	Infant Baptism
		Others cling to their infant baptism, not as God's means of conveying the promised grace, but as a superstitious rite that automatically guarantees their salvation.
		Calvin stated, "Whoever, having neglected baptism, feigns himself to be contented with the bare promise, tramples as much as in him lies, upon the blood of Christ, or at least does not suffer it to flow for the washing of his own children.
		If there is one covenant of grace in both testaments and circumcision and baptism are the sacraments of the Old and New Testament administrations of that one covenant, the burden of proof would seem to fall on the side of those who deny infant baptism.
	www.scionofzion.com /infantbap.htm (3672 words)

	Catholic infant baptism compared to Scripture.
		Infant Baptism is one of the most critical doctrines of the Catholic church:
		"Born with a fallen human nature and tainted by original sin, children also have need of the new birth in Baptism to be freed from the power of darkness and brought into the realm of the freedom of the children of God, to which all men are called.
		The sheer gratuitousness of the grace of salvation is particularly manifest in infant Baptism.
	www.chick.com /reading/books/160/160_10.asp (600 words)

	Early Teachings on Infant Baptism
		Baptism is the Christian equivalent of circumcision, or "the circumcision of Christ": "In him you were also circumcised with.
		Therefore he passed through every age, becoming an infant for infants, sanctifying infants; a child for children, sanctifying those who are of that age.
		In the Church, baptism is given for the remission of sins, and, according to the usage of the Church, baptism is given even to infants.
	www.catholic.com /library/Early_Teachings_of_Infant_Baptism.asp (1523 words)

	Rites of Passage: Infant Baptism 01
		Baptism is the sign that someone belongs to Christ.
		Although a baby cannot decide to follow Christ for themselves, in the Anglican Church a baptism shows that the child is included as a member of the church family.
		When a child is baptised the family and church members look forward to the day when the promises made on behalf of the baby become personally real for the child.
	www.request.org.uk /main/dowhat/baptism/infant01.htm (241 words)

	Infant Baptism -- Apolonio's Catholic Apologetics, Philosophy, Spirituality
		However, that's really beside the point, since there is nothing that speaks against infant Baptism either; and, as you and I were discussing at the Oratory, there is also no Scriptural account of Baptizing retarded or mentally-imbalanced people, yet the Church has always done so.
		In the case of an infant or a retarded person, they will say that these lack the ability to reason, and therefore they are free of guilt.
		So, the real issue with those who deny infant Baptism is that they deny the reality of what we call original sin, something which non-Catholics usually confuse with "original guilt" (which Catholics DO NOT believe in).
	www.bringyou.to /apologetics/a26.htm (1776 words)

	Infant Baptism by Andrew Das
		From her perspective, infant baptism was a meaningless ritual since infants didn't have the faith that was necessary to benefit from the baptism.
		As we read through the baptism of households in Acts, it is a recurrent motif that salvation and baptism were intended for EVERYONE in the household.
		Although we must admit that the presence of infants and small children was likely given the size of the ancient household which included also the slaves and their children.
	www.issuesetc.org /resource/archives/das.htm (3564 words)

	Infant baptism Lutheran, The - Find Articles
		Infant baptism isn't specifically commanded in the New Testament, although baptism is (Matthew 28:19).
		We believe that in baptism God adopts us into Jesus Christ as his child for time and eternity through the word, water and Spirit.
		From the early days of the church we believe that infants, as well as older children and adults, were baptized.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3942/is_200312/ai_n9316130 (449 words)

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