Baptism requires confession, faith and repentance. Things infants cannot have or do. There are dozens of examples of souls being baptized in the Bible; but not one instance was where a baby was baptized.
There are numerous instances of “whole households” being baptised.
Those households would include infants for the simple reasons that
1. there were lots of kids in those days (people had many as many died)
2. the parents would want their children saved especially considered that many would not make it to their 5th birthday
“There are dozens of examples of souls being baptized in the Bible; but not one instance was where a baby was baptized.”
Paul notes that baptism has replaced circumcision (Col. 2:11–12). In that passage, he refers to baptism as “the circumcision of Christ” and “the circumcision made without hands.” Of course, usually only infants were circumcised under the Old Law; circumcision of adults was rare, since there were few converts to Judaism. If Paul meant to exclude infants, he would not have chosen circumcision as a parallel for baptism.
Remember that Christ’s law applies to infants as well as adults, for Jesus said that no one can enter heaven unless he has been born again of water and the Holy Spirit (John 3:5). His words can be taken to apply to anyone capable of belonging to his kingdom. He asserted such even for children: “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 19:14).