Scriptural backup that support infant baptism in the Roman Catholic Church despite the argument of some quoting Romans 10:9, “If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, you shall be saved.
OLD
TESTAMENT
Psalm 22:9-10:
Yet
you are He who brought me forth from the womb; you made me trust when upon my
mother’s breasts. Upon You I saw cast from birth; you have been my God from my
mother’s womb. (New American Standard Bible)
Isaiah 46:3
Listen to Me, o house of Jacob, And all the ruminant
of the house of Israel, You who have
been borne by me from birth And have been carried from the womb; (New American Standard Bible)
Isaiah 49:1
Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples
from afar. The Lord called me from the womb; from the body of my mother he
named my name. (English Standard Version)
Jeremiah 1:5
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and
before you were born I consecrated you; have appointed you a prophet to the
nations. (New American Standard Bible)
NEW
TESTAMENT
Matthew 18:3
Truly I say to you, unless
you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of
heaven. (New American Standard Bible)
Matthew 19:14:
But Jesus said, ”Let
the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to me; for the kingdom
of heaven belongs to such as these.” (New American Standard Bible) and many more
Luke 1:15:
He will be great before the lord. And he must not drink wine or strong
drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.
. (English Standard Version)
Luke 1:42:
When Elizabeth heard
Mary’s greeting, the baby in her womb leaped for joy; and Elizabeth was filled
with the Holy Spirit. (New American Standard Bible)
Galatians 1:15:
Even before I was
born, God chose me and called me by his marvelous grace (New Living Tradition)
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