Even among Evangelical Protestants there is much debate about Infant Baptism. My old Baptist tradition rejected it as a Catholic tradition of men.
Dr. Francis Schaeffer, my favorite Evangelical Presbyterian theologian wrote a booklet entitled Infant Baptism in favor of the practice – my wife Janet was raised Presbyterian and was baptized as an infant. I, however, born and raised a Baptist, was not baptized since that was considered “a man-made Catholic tradition”.
It continues to be a problem between Catholics and many Protestants. If you want to know more about it and why we as Catholics practice it with joy based on Scripture and early tradition, read my article here.
St. Augustine wrote,
“Who is so impious as to wish to exclude infants from the kingdom of heaven by forbidding them to be baptized and born again in Christ?”
and
“This [infant baptism] the Church always had, always held; this she received from the faith of our ancestors; this she perseveringly guards even to the end.”
The picture is our granddaughter Elizabeth Arabella Rose Ray getting baptized 14 years ago — a little pagan becomes a Christian.
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