Please explain: Why stop at infants?
What about toddlers?
What about Any aged kid?
What about adults with mental disabilities?
What about adults who haven't heard the Gospel?
By the time you list all of the "What abouts...?" you basically could readily arrive at some semi-conclusion of "Hey, why bother to..."
...disciple anybody?
...missionize anybody?
...baptize anybody?
Why "frighten" anyone with ANY shred of revelation about hell?
Why, ya might as well just embrace universalism.
...Dying infants...
We do have one OT glimpse here. As a punishment for David's sin with Bathsheba, the Bible indicates David's young son was taken.
David then said that the boy would not return to him, but that David would return to the son.
But it's all left with at least a degree of mystery.
For whatever we conclude in that verse, we also need to temper it -- as applied to ALL people:
"I am the way, the truth, and the life. NO ONE comes to the Father but by ME." -- Jesus, John 14:6
Why stop at infants is your question to which I answer Why not? It is a judgment call as to when a person reaches accountability. No where in scripture(God’s real commands)does God and Christ state “Thou must baptize infants.â€)Baptism is necessary for salvation(but not sufficient). If necessary to baptize children Christ would have said so. Will Christ throw a two year old unbaptized infant into the fires of hell? Please answer the question not engaging in the usual avoidance of the unpleasant implications of your position. Babies roasting in the fires of Hell! More babies have died unbaptized than those ever baptized. Even the Papacy could not stomach that picture and created a non scriptural “Purgatory†to avoid the unpleasant consequences of their heinous doctrines.