Baptism

infants from the beginning. These men who were against it would have
pointed out that infant baptism was not an Apostolic practice.
In all probability Infant Baptism was of Apostolic origin.
The Witness of the Catacombs :Epitaphs of Children
"Early Christian inscriptions, which in the largest numbers come from the
environs of Rome, furnish some instances of child and infant baptism for the
third century . . . Nearly all the early Christian inscriptions are epitaphs. A
considerable number of these are for the graves of children. The vast majority
give no evidence whether the child was baptized or not . . . Actually the word
"baptism" is seldom used. The idea is expressed by "received grace," "made a
believer" or "neophyte" (newly planted " used to mean "newly baptized") --
from Everett Ferguson, Early Christians Speak: Faith and Life in the First
Three Centuries; Revised Edition (Abilene: ACU Press, 1984) .Epitaphs from
200 AD are found in abundance. See also Issues, Etc. Journal - Spring 1997 -
Vol. 2 No. 3 Infant Baptism in Early Church History by Dennis Kastens)
"In that century there are attributes and symbols in tombstones inscriptions of
little children which allows us to clearly infer we are dealing with baptized
children. The following is as early as 200 or shortly thereafter:
In the second last line is the phrase Dei Serv(u)s which means slave of God
followed by the Chi Rho symbol for Christ. The last line is the Greek ichtheos
familiar as the "fish symbol" - an anagram for Jesus Christ God’s Son Savior.
These words and symbols mark the one-year, two months, and four-day-old
child as a baptized Christian.
From the Lateran Museum, also from the 200’s, is a Greek inscription that
gives information about the religious status of the parents. It reads, "I,
Zosimus, a believer from believers, lie here having lived 2 years, 1 month, 25
days."
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