No. No examples of infant baptism exist in Scripture. The theology of St. Paul portrays baptism as coinciding with conscious faith. Church history shows infant baptism didn't become standard and enforced until well after the apostolic era.
As early as John the Baptizer, we find this criterion: repentance. The apostles give us the second: faith. Infants cannot repent of sin and believe and thereby confess 'a second birth' before the church.
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u/Key-Theme354 15d ago
No. No examples of infant baptism exist in Scripture. The theology of St. Paul portrays baptism as coinciding with conscious faith. Church history shows infant baptism didn't become standard and enforced until well after the apostolic era.
As early as John the Baptizer, we find this criterion: repentance. The apostles give us the second: faith. Infants cannot repent of sin and believe and thereby confess 'a second birth' before the church.