Catholic infant baptism?

I do not know but found this on wiki. Scholars disagree on the date when infant baptism was first practiced. Some believe that 1st-century Christians did not practice it, noting the lack of any explicit evidence of paedobaptism.6 Others, noting the lack of any explicit evidence of exclusion of paedobaptism, believe that they did,7 understanding biblical references to individuals "and her household" being baptised (Acts 16:15, Acts 16:31-33, 1 Corinthians 1:16) as well as "the promise to you and your children" (Acts 2:39)as including small children and infants.

While the earliest extra-biblical directions for baptism,8 which occurs in the Didache (c. 100),9 speaks to the baptism of adults, rather than young children, since it requires that the person to be baptised should fast,10 writings of the 2nd and early 3rd century indicate that some Christians baptised infants too.11 Irenaeus (c. 130–202) speaks of children and infants being "born again to God"12 and three passages of Origen (185–c.

254)13 mention infant baptism as traditional and customary.14 Tertullian (c. 155–230) too, while advising postponement of baptism of little children and the unmarried, mentions that it was customary to baptise infants, with sponsors speaking on their behalf.15 The Apostolic Tradition, sometimes attributed to Hippolytus of Rome (died 235), describes how to perform the ceremony of baptism; it states that children were baptised first, and if any of them could not answer for themselves, their parents or someone else from their family was to answer for them.16 From at least the 3rd century onward Christians baptised infants as standard practice, although some preferred to postpone baptism until late in life, so as to ensure forgiveness for all their preceding sins.17 MIMI.

Historian Augustus Neander wrote:"Faith and baptism were always connected with one another;and thus is in the highest degree probable...that the practice of infant baptism was unknown in the first century C.E....That it first became recognized as an apostolic tradition in the course of the third century,is evidence rather against than for the admission of it's apostolic origin." (History of the planting and training of the Christian church by the Apostles.(New York,1864,page 162)). Origen (185 - 254 C. E) wrote: "It is the custom of the church that baptism be administered even to infants." (Selections from the Commentaries and Homilies of Origen,Madras,India; 1929,pg 211) The practice was confirmed by a Council of Carthage (c.

252 C. E). Hope this helps.

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