[kj7gs]

Yes, infant baptism is valid. Babies in the New Testament are under the same promises as the Old Testament, under circumcision. It doesn't definitively save them, and it isn't show and tell. It's a matter of trust by Christian parents, with obligations for themselves and the church (not just godparents) to bring the children up in the ways of the Lord. Babies aren't "automatically saved," as if we can tell God to move over so we can sit in judgment and start declaring people innocent. That's why we DON'T give our children choices, they follow the parents because the parents love them enough to drag them to church, folding their hands for them in prayer, teaching them the faith, not witnessing to them as if they are "saved outsiders," Uncle Jesus waiting in the wings and hoping they will choose him. Not a bit, we ASSUME regeneration, they are PRODIGALS under their baptism if they fall away, we claim them as His until proven otherwise. Yes, infant baptism all the way. BUT for new believers, immersion is just as good as sprinkling or pouring, signifying the death, burial (even though Jesus wasn't "buried" per se, he was laid on a shelf in a tomb), and resurrection of our Lord.