#13
If baby baptism is legit for all Catholics, why isn’t at least one specific baby baptized in the New Testament?
Whole households were baptized. Lydia’s for example by Paul. Although infants are not mentioned in Scripture directly, undoubtedly their were very young children or babies.
“If baby baptism is legit for all Catholics, why isn’t at least one specific baby baptized in the New Testament?”
It must be one the same page that the inspired Table of Contents is on.
Luke 18:15-16
On the other hand, nowhere do we read of children raised in believing households reaching the age of reason and then being baptized. The only explicit baptism accounts in the Bible involve converts from Judaism or paganism. For children of believers there is no explicit mention of baptism—either in infancy or later.
Because it wasn’t a matter of controversy. Famously, Jesus is not recorded to have said anything against sodomy. Does that mean, as gay activists claim, he approved of it? Of course not. It means that it was a non-issue.
The first time in history it is mentioned that Christian parents DELAYED baptizing a child is in the fourth century. And they were heretics.