Just to be clear on commonly missives elements - With #3, we can’t overlook the Church’s (not the Bishop’s, the pastor’s, or the DRE’s) basis for baptizing infants: From the very beginning, whole “households” received baptism. There is no reason to believe that infants would not have been included (see Acts 11:14; 16:15, 33; 18:8; 1 Cor.…
Just to be clear on commonly missives elements - With #3, we can’t overlook the Church’s (not the Bishop’s, the pastor’s, or the DRE’s) basis for baptizing infants: From the very beginning, whole “households” received baptism. There is no reason to believe that infants would not have been included (see Acts 11:14; 16:15, 33; 18:8; 1 Cor. 1:16).
When Paul led the Philippian jailer to Christ in Acts 16, he said to him, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household” (Acts 16:31). He does not say that all in his household must first believe. He simply says they will all be saved. How could he say that?
Paul seems to have understood what St. Peter had already preached back when Paul was still persecuting Christians (in Acts 2:38). The promise of faith and baptism is for the jailer and his children.
Just to be clear on commonly missives elements - With #3, we can’t overlook the Church’s (not the Bishop’s, the pastor’s, or the DRE’s) basis for baptizing infants: From the very beginning, whole “households” received baptism. There is no reason to believe that infants would not have been included (see Acts 11:14; 16:15, 33; 18:8; 1 Cor. 1:16).
When Paul led the Philippian jailer to Christ in Acts 16, he said to him, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household” (Acts 16:31). He does not say that all in his household must first believe. He simply says they will all be saved. How could he say that?
Paul seems to have understood what St. Peter had already preached back when Paul was still persecuting Christians (in Acts 2:38). The promise of faith and baptism is for the jailer and his children.
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/infant-baptism
Misperceived, not “missive” - sorry