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Can Babies Meet the Conditions that Must Precede Baptism? Acts 10:34,35; Rom. 2:11

1) Before Baptism One Must Hear and Understand the Gospel. Mark 16:15,16 ,John 6:44,45 , 1 Cor. 14:20 ,Acts 2:36,41

2) Before Baptism One Must Believe the Gospel. Mark 16:15,16, Galatians 3:26,27 Acts 8:12,Acts 8:36-39; 18:8; Rom. 1:16; 10:13-17

3) Before Baptism One Must Repent of Sins. Acts 2:38,Matt. 21:28,29

4) Before Baptism One Must Confess Christ. Romans 10:9,10 , Acts 8:35-39.

Can Babies Be Baptized for the Right Reason?

1) Each Individual Is Responsible to Serve God from Proper Motives Romans 6:17,18 ,Acts 2:40,41 Ezek. 18:20 and 2 Cor. 5:10. Cf. Rom. 2:28,29; 1 Pet. 1:22; 3:21; 2 Cor. 8:5; Rev. 22:17; Phil. 2:12; 1 Cor. 13:1-3.]

2) A Baby Cannot Be Baptized to Receive Forgiveness, because It Has No Sins to Be Forgiven.

How could a baby become guilty of sin?

Infant baptism is objectionable for several reasons. By examining the problems in infant baptism, we have also shown how people should be baptized properly.

First, infant baptism is an unauthorized change in God's pattern for baptism. God tells us whom to baptize. He tells the conditions people must meet in order to be baptized, but babies do not fit. To baptize babies is to act by human authority without divine authority.

Second, infant baptism leads people to believe they are saved when they are not. God requires people to be baptized for the remission of sins when they are old enough to make their own decision about the matter. But many people have been baptized as babies. Then, when they are old enough to be responsible for their conduct so they should be baptized, they refuse because they believe they have already done so. But their infant baptism was not Scriptural. So the person goes through his whole life never having been Scripturally baptized, and therefore he never has received forgiveness of his sins!

A final objection to infant baptism is that it is almost always done by sprinkling or pouring, not by immersion. But the Bible says that baptism is a burial (Rom. 6:4; Col. 2:12). A person must go down into the water and come up out of it (Acts 8:38,39; Mark 1:9,10). Bible baptism requires much water (John 3:23). Infant baptism does not fit God's pattern on any of these points. The evidence clearly shows that Bible baptism is an immersion, not a sprinkling or pouring.

What should a person do if his baptism was not done the way the Bible teaches? He should realize that he simply has not yet obeyed God, and he needs to obey God by being baptized according to the Bible (Acts 19:1-6). If this is your need, we urge you to find a faithful local church belonging to Christ and be baptized Scripturally today!

Are you obeying what bible says ???

"You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I The Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate Me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love Me and keep My Commandments." (Exodus 20:4-6 )

"I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images." -Isaiah 42:8

Exodus 34:17

"Do not make cast idols.

Why do Churches give child baptism when it is not even mentioned in the Bible? For it says whoever believes and be baptised will be saved. Mark 16:16

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