Baptism
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Christianity essentially an acknowledgement of doctrine and intellectual<br />
assent? If so we need to wait until the intellectual faculty is developed to take<br />
in those teachings. You cannot teach Calculus unlessthe student have taken<br />
Pre-Calculus algebra. However the uniqueness of Christianity is that it is<br />
personal relationship between the person and Christ. Then even infants have<br />
the ability to have relationships. Don’t they development relation with the<br />
Father and Mother. Thus basically every infant is capable of developing<br />
relationship with Christ from their birth. There is no age when they are not<br />
ready for it. This is the reason why we don’t have a single adult or beleiver’s<br />
baptism in the scripture among the children of the Christians. From 30 AD to<br />
80 or 100 AD during the Apostolic Period there were children born to the<br />
believers. There is not one single incidence of adult baptism of believing<br />
parents found in the scripture or in the first and second centuary history. True<br />
no such direct description for infant baptism is also found. But certainly there<br />
are indirect references for household baptisms and lots of first and second<br />
centuary reference for it.<br />
The point is that even an infant is ready for relationship with Christ and it is<br />
the duty of every Christian parent to get their child into that relationship right<br />
from the birth. It is not a one time event or act, but an on going process. No<br />
wonder we cannot find the age fit for this lasting relationship with the saviour.<br />
Jordan Bajis of Greek Orthodox Church summarizes his arguments in the<br />
following section: http://www.goarch.org/<br />
“Many times the debate regarding infant baptism is a defensive one; those<br />
who propose that adult baptism is the only valid form challenge those who<br />
practice infant baptism to prove that it is an acceptable practice. What if those<br />
who exclusively favor adult baptism were interrogated? What answers would<br />
they give to questions which up until now have been virtually unaddressed?<br />
Questions such as these:<br />
• If infant baptism is a later invention, when did it begin and who began<br />
it? Where did it originate?<br />
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