Is it heresy for Baptists to baptize a baby? One pastor’s example sets off a debate

by Joseph Saraceno

RNS-INFANT-BAPTISMThe sprinkling-style baptism of a Dayton, Ohio, infant — a scene heartwarming and commonplace for Catholics and mainline Protestants — is touching off accusations of doctrinal heresy in the evangelical world. MORE

Comment: This Catholic view has been debated and in my research if this wasn’t true, their would have been a letter (Encyclical) stating a change of Church policy in the Baptism of Infants. None can be found.

Example: According to the same work on the popes, Pope St. Linus is supposed to have issued a decree “in conformity with the ordinance of St. Peter”, that women should have their heads covered in church. Without doubt this decree is apocryphal, and copied by the author of the “Liber Pontificalis” from the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians (11:5) and arbitrarily attributed to the first successor of the Apostle in Rome. Joseph