SHOULD INFANTS BE BAPTISED?

A Brief Overview of Genesis

A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF GENESIS 17




     Here we read the account of God making a
covenant with Abram and instituting the sign of
Circumcision.



 



Verses 1-2   God appears to
Abram and says  He will establish His covenant with
Abram.



Verses 5-7   God changes his name
to Abraham, for he will be a father to many nations



              and this covenant
will be between God and Abraham and his descendants



              for an 
everlasting covenant.  Notice that Abraham believed God and it




              was reckoned to
him as righteousness before he was circumcised and
that



              he is the
father of all who believe.(Gen.15:6; Rom.4:3,9-25)



Verses 9-14  Abraham was
head of his household (1Cor11:3) and every male from eight




              days old was
to recieve the sign of circumcision, even servants. 



Verses 23     Every male
was circumcised.









 









INFANTS NEED A SAVIOUR
TOO!!!






     In understanding that
baptism is also for children, we would have to conclude that they are
sinners in need of a saviour.  Lets see what the Bible
says:






 



Genesis 6-8 God floods the Earth-there
had to be children.



 



Gen. 6:5     Then the Lord saw
that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and



             that every intent of
the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.



Gen.8:21     And the Lord smelled
a soothing aroma.  Then the Lord said in His heart 



             "I will never again
curse the ground for man's sake, although the 



             imagination of man's
heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again 



             destroy every living
thing as I have done."



 



 



Genesis 18:16-18,30 God destroys Sodom &Gomorrah-there
had to be children.



 



Gen.18:20    And the Lord said, 
"because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is 



             great, and because
their sin is very grave,



 



 



Numbers 16  The Rebellion of
Korah



 



Num.16:27-33 So they got away from
around the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram;



             and Dathan and Abiram
came out and stood at the door of their tents, with



             their wives, their
sons, and their little children.  And Moses said:  




             "By this you shall
know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works,



             for I have not done
them of my own will.  If these men die natural



             like  men, or if they
are visited by the common fate of all men, then 



             the Lord has not sent
me.  But if the Lord creates a new thing, and 



             the earth opens its
mouth and swallows them up with all that 



             belongs to them, and
they go down alive into the pit, then you 



             will understand that
these men have rejected the Lord."



             Now it came to pass,
as he finished speaking all these words, that



             the ground split
apart under them, and the earth opened its mouth



             and swallowed them
up, with their households and all the men 



             with all their goods.
 So they and all those with them went down



             alive into the pit;
the the earth closed over them, and they perished



             from among the
assembly. 



 



 



Ps 51:5      Behold, I was brought
forth in iniquity, And in sin, my Mother 



             conceived
me.



Ps 58:3      The wicked are
estranged from the womb; They go astray as



             soon as they are
born, speaking lies.



Rom 3:10     As it is written: 
There is none righteous, no not even one.



John 3:3     Jesus answered and
said to him, "Most assuredly I say to you,



             unless one is born
again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."