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NASB | Acts 16:15 And when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay." And she prevailed upon us. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 16:15 And when she was baptized, along with her household, she pleaded with us, saying, "If you have judged me and decided that I am faithful to the Lord [a true believer], come to my house and stay." And she persuaded us. |
Bible Question: can we assume infants were baptized in the bible. Is there any scripture that supports infant baptism? |
Bible Answer: Jeff I personally think we make too much of the whole thing. In the early church when one of the family came to saving knowledge of Jesus Christ they whole family did and were baptized. Acts 10:44-48 Acts 16:15 Acts 16:33 Acts 18:8 and Acts 19:5. After that I imagine if a baby was born they wanted him to become a partaker of the New Covenant through Baptism much like the Jews made their babies partakers of the Old Covenant by circumcising them at 8 days. And hence it began. As best we can tell Babies were baptized as infant for the next 1500 years with very few objections. However in the Reformation men started to question this. They developed terms to describe each position. Words like Paedobaptist, Credobaptist and Anabaptist. We now argue whether you should or should not be baptized as a Baby, upon salvation, before death etc. We also argue if is mandatory or not and then we argue over the words to use, in Jesus' name only or in the Name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. We also argue if you should dip, dunk or sprinkle. From these points we can come up with all kinds of variations. From scripture I can’t see anything that dictates how, when, and by what formula and I believe if your baptized as a baby and you have a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ praise God. If you weren’t baptized as a baby and you get saved then baptized then praise God. If you were never baptized but are saved through Jesus Christ then again I praise the Lord. If you were baptized as infant then came to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and got baptized again praise the Lord. How and when and what formula are all things Satan has put in way for man to argue over, divide us and make the church look like a mass of confusion to the world. EdB |