👶Baptizing Babies!? | Fr. Ryan Murphy | May 16, 2023

Why do Catholics baptize babies?
Daily Gospel Meditation
Tuesday | 6th Week of Easter

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[ronselgrath]

Acts states that all the household of Cornelius was baptized. That is the end of the discussion.

[MelancholicHiraeth]

Not the argument I would use. I would probably point out that baptism is the new circumcision so it only makes sense as in the old tradition to circumcise the newborns we should now, in the new age, then baptize infants.

[_TKFitness]

Doesn’t baptism require you to repent - how are babies getting baptized when there is nothing to repent. Many Christian religions believe that every child is innately sinful at birth due to the fall of Adam. However, God holds individuals accountable only for personal sin and not for Adam’s transgression (see Articles of Faith 1:2). Because young children are sinless before God, they have no cause to repent or to be baptized. In the New Testament, Jesus plainly taught that little children are inherently good and pure. The Book of Mormon further declares, “Little children are whole, for they are not capable of committing sin” (Moroni 8:8).

Jesus also said, “They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance” (Mark 2:17). So if little children are not capable of sinning, do they have any need for baptism?

When Jesus was baptized, Matthew records, He “went up straightway out of the water” (Matthew 3:16). This full immersion in water symbolizes rebirth as an individual is buried in the water and rises up, clean and committed to following Jesus Christ and His gospel. In fact, the word baptism itself comes from the Greek baptizo meaning “to dip or immerse.”