In Judaism, the infant is circumcised before it has a faith of its own to symbolise that it belongs to the Jewish people. In the same way, baptism of an infant occurs before the infant has a faith ...

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This particular passage leads into the second issue: infant baptism. Even though the Bible does not directly address the issue of infant baptism, it does record the baptisms of three different ...

The baptism ceremony also allows parents and godparents to make a promise before God to bring the baby up within the faith of Christianity. Christian denominations that also practise infant ...

Strout noted that while there was no "explicit reference" to infant baptism in the Bible, passages like Acts 16:15 document "entire households" being baptized and thus imply infants, as well.

This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the baptism of Jesus Christ — celebrated in the Catholic faith on Jan.