Why then does the world assume that infant baptism is appropriate? The Bible does not teach it by statement, command, example or necessary inference. Appeals are made to assume, without any textual necessity, that Cornelius, the Philippian jailor or Lydia must surely have had children in their households. The record clearly shows that all those in the household of Cornelius gathered to HEAR all that was commanded by the Lord (Acts 10:33), all learned to FEAR God and DO what is right (Acts 10:35), all that were baptized had LISTENED, SPOKEN with tongues and EXALTED God (Acts 10:44-48) and were saved through obeying the WORDS SPOKEN (Acts 11:14). Thus, if any children were in this group, they were capable of understanding the spoken word of God, of recognizing that they had sinned and of exalting God by words of their mouth. Likewise, in the other household baptisms mentioned in Acts, there is no indication that the clear pattern of hearing, believing, repenting and confessing before baptism was not followed. There is also no secular record of the first century church practicing infant baptism. The first examples of infant baptism are not found until the late second century and then only tolerated. By the late third century the practice was common but it was not until the sixth century that infant baptism became the mandated practice (Justinian’s Code) of the apostate church influenced by Augustine’s doctrine of original sin (Ezekiel 18 esp 20, 21, 24 and James 1:14-15 are among the scripture which refute this false doctrine). Thus infant baptism has its roots in the traditions of men just as chief bishops, councils of chief bishops, sprinkling for immersion and state enforced baptism.

The preceding scriptural evidence should lead you to conclude that infant baptism is not required by God. Consequently, if you can understand the scriptural argument, YOU ARE of such an age to be subject to the requirements of God. Have YOU followed “the elementary teaching about the Christ” and gone on to the solid food of “the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil” (Heb 5:11-6:2).