Allow sin no opportunity; rather, let the infant be sanctified from childhood. From his most tender age let him be consecrated by the Spirit. Do you fear the seal [of baptism] because of the ...

The baptism ceremony also allows parents and godparents to make a promise before God to bring the baby up within the faith of Christianity. Christian denominations that also practise infant ...

In Judaism, the infant is circumcised before it has a faith of its own to symbolise that it belongs to the Jewish people. In the same way, baptism of an infant occurs before the infant has a faith ...