Is child baptism a right thing?
The Church from the beginning has practiced the Baptism of children. The reasons are very clear in Scriptures. (Joh 3:5 DRB) Jesus answered: Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. To the first Christians that baptized their children it was understood by them that Baptism is the doorway to salvation. St. Peter said the following: (1Pe 3:18 DRB) Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit, (1Pe 3:19 DRB) In which also coming he preached to those spirits that were in prison: (1Pe 3:20 DRB) Which had been some time incredulous, when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building: wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water. (1Pe 3:21 DRB) Whereunto baptism, being of the like form, now saveth you also: not the putting away of the filth
