Infants are Baptized at the request of parents (who are responsible for all decisions affecting their well being). Parents are responsible to baptize their babies. If they knowingly do not do so, they break God’s covenant in a very serious matter.
Upon reaching the age of reason, children then can choose to receive the following Sacraments including Confession, Eucharist and Confirmation. Individuals can reject these sacraments or chose to leave the active practice of the Catholic faith (like you did)at any time.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church gives us the most important reasons why we must baptize infants:
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. The Church and the parents would deny a child the priceless grace of becoming a child of God were they not to confer Baptism shortly after birth (CCC 1250).
Original sin is a reality from which each and every human person desperately needs to be freed. Biblically speaking, Romans 5:12 is remarkably clear on this point:
Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned.
Even if nothing else was said in Scripture implying infant baptism, we could conclude it to be necessary just from this simple fact: babies need to have original sin removed from their souls.
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/infant-baptism
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“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. The Church and the parents would deny a child the priceless grace of becoming a child of God were they not to confer Baptism shortly after birth (CCC 1250).”
Chapter and verse in Scripture please?
No babies are said to be baptized in the NT.
That does not change my point.
It IS forced on an infant and then the claim is made that there’s nothing they can do to remove that *indelible* mark*.
They have no choice in the matter.
Which covenant is that ?
All seven covenants in the Bible deal with Israel, not infants
Original sin is a reality from which each and every human person desperately needs to be freed. Biblically speaking, Romans 5:12 is remarkably clear on this point:
Infant baptism frees a human from original sin?
I guess the writers of the NT forgot to make that point in all their writing. The blood of Christ actually does that. Just a suggestion but reading Romans Chapter 5 in context might clarify your misunderstanding of Romans 5:12 which has nothing to do with infant baptism.
You don't receive any grace from being baptized...Grace is a free gift, for doing nothing...An unbaptized baby gets just as much grace as a baptized baby...