How does one believe?
They listen to preaching, read the Bible or other books or they can seek the Truth or be inspired by God. Very few are struck down by Jesus like St Paul. And perhaps there more ways to learn to believe.
Believing is a process and we grow in our belief and love of God.
For children, including infants, it is the parent’s responsibility to teach their children about God and they too can grow in their belief in God. Or they can reject a belief in God. Baptism forgives sins and provides God’s grace. For infants, they do not have personal sins, yet they receive forgiveness of original sin passed down from Adam.
Are their false beliefs, false interpretations and false preachers? Yes.
They listen to preaching, read the Bible or other books or they can seek the Truth or be inspired by God. Very few are struck down by Jesus like St Paul. And perhaps there more ways to learn to believe.
Believing is a process and we grow in our belief and love of God.
For children, including infants, it is the parent’s responsibility to teach their children about God and they too can grow in their belief in God. Or they can reject a belief in God
You are talking about an intellectual belief...That's not the belief of salvation...Belief in God/Jesus is not a lifelong endeavor...It's a one time deal...Belief in Jesus is a trust that you know he is your Saviour and will get you to heaven...
Psa 84:12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
Isa 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
Act 16:30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
Act 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Act 16:32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.
Act 16:33 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
Act 16:34 And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
Believe
πιστεύω
pisteuō pist-yoo'-o
From G4102; to have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), that is, credit; by implication to entrust (especially one’s spiritual well being to Christ): - believe (-r), commit (to trust), put in trust with.
For infants, they do not have personal sins, yet they receive forgiveness of original sin passed down from Adam.
So what, do they get their original sin back when they are a little older, when the men have to toil to make a living and the women go thru pain during childbirth???
While in the temporal realm we realize the effects of the beliefs and thus the works of others, for good or evil, yet this is not punishment for our sins, much less the basis for eternal punishment.
Which damnation is always based upon our own works, not that of others.
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. (Deuteronomy 24:16)
But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the Lord commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin. (2 Kings 14:6)
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge. (Jeremiah 31:29-30)
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. (Ezekiel 18:20)
One need not and cannot be forgiven for what he is not guilty of.
Romans 5:12 (Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned) does not teach infants are culpable for sin, nor Psalms 51:5, but although the sinful nature is passed on, yet that nature "is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be," (Romans 8:7) and is not redeemed but is to be mortified, including its thoughts and affections (Col. 3) which for me is a work needing more progress by the grace of God.