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All fallible witnesses. Holy Scripture inspired buy the Spirit is the only infallible testimony. No e of those you quote can be faithful witnesses in the matter in view. God’s gracious gift of salvation is based only on the invisible unseen Word-persuaded confidence in Jesus as Savior and Lord. This requires a response of both heart and mind of a sentient hearer of the preached Word (Rom. 10:12) which it is totally impossible for an infant. Your idea would require a visible act performed by another upon the infant, even if it is only a couple of wet fingers. Salvation cannot be earned by any human works other than that of the Crucified One.

In Acts 2:38, “. . . be baptized every one of you in the nome of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins . . .”

Here both the grammar and consonance with Biblical doctrine require that the Greek preposition “eis” translated as “for” must be used in the foundational sense as in Mt. 12:41, to mean “on the basis of” that when less ambiguously translated means:

“. . . be baptized every one of you (by the delegated authority of) Jesus Christ (on the basis of) sins already forgiven (through faith alone in the shed blood of Jesus, 1 Jn. 1:9) . . .”

This cannot mean that water baptism imparts salvation to an infant or to any sentient adult of any kind. Period. Done.

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In Acts 2:38, “. . . be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins . . .”

“Every one of you” — that includes your infants