Saint Augustine developed the concept of original sin, so there needs to be a way of removing that sin, or logic would say that no-one can ever go to heaven. People believe that by means of baptism, that sin is removed.
Cardinal George Pell recently stated that the story of Adam and Eve is a myth, describing it as a religious story told for religious purposes. Without their existence, it will be hard to sustain the belief that Christians are born with original sin as a consequence of the sin of Adam and Eve. Now, we need to establish whether or not original sin really exists before we can really say whether baptism really takes away original sin, as Augustine asserted.
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Catholic AnswerBasically baptism takes away original sin, actually all sin including original, AND the effects of that sin, because this is how God set it up, and Our Blessed Lord revealed this to us, commanding that the Gospel be preached to all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit....
from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 1994
405 Although it is proper to each individual, (Cf. Council of Trent: Denzinger-Schonmetzer, Enchiridion Symbolorum, definitionum de rebus fidei et morum (1965) 1514) original sin does not have the character of a personal fault in any of Adam's descendants. It is a deprivation of original holiness and justice, but human nature has not been totally corrupted: it is wounded in the natural powers proper to it; subject to ignorance, suffering, and the dominion of death; and inclined to sin--an inclination to evil that is called "concupiscence." Baptism, by imparting the life of Christ's grace, erases original sin and turns a man back toward God, but the consequences for nature, weakened and inclined to evil, persist in man and summon him to spiritual battle.
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The Church's teaching on the transmission of original sin was articulated more precisely in the fifth century, especially under the impulse of St. Augustine's reflections against Pelagianism, and in the sixteenth century, in opposition to the Protestant Reformation. Pelagius held that man could, by the natural power of free will and without the necessary help of God's grace, lead a morally good life; he thus reduced the influence of Adam's fault to bad example. The first Protestant reformers, on the contrary, taught that original sin has radically perverted man and destroyed his freedom; they identified the sin inherited by each man with the tendency to evil (concupiscentia), which would be insurmountable. The Church pronounced on the meaning of the data of Revelation on original sin especial at the second Council of Orange (529) (Denzinger-Schonmetzer, Enchiridion Symbolorum, definitionum de rebus fidei et morum (1965) 371-372) and at the Council of Trent (1546). (Cf. Denzinger-Schonmetzer, Enchiridion Symbolorum, definitionum de rebus fidei et morum (1965) 1510-1516)
yes he did
Because when the Christian church first started they would baptize adults, but when the starting proselytizing to people of other religions, the people they would convert already had families(including children and babies). So the church decided to just start baptizing babies for convenience and soon it become a tradition.
I believe the original, full saying should be 'As daft as a brush with no bristles'
Anabaptists believe that a person can only be Baptized upon valid confession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Thus they do not Baptize infants and so have this in common with what the Baptists teach. The word anabaptist is really a derogatory label (meaning to Baptize again) given them by their opponents who believed in infant Baptism such as the Roman Catholics and Lutherans and so they were seen as applying a second Baptism as most of their followers (except a few that grew up as such) would have been Baptized as babies. I would say that the above answer is true, as baptists come from anabaptists, who baptized the christened, though we, as baptists, are only baptized once, as the catholic christening is not as popular as it was in the old days.
St. John did so by Baptizing people.
Infants and the elderly
penobscot, maliseet, micmac tribes of native americans...I believe all are members of the abernaki nation
China influenced Japan through alphabet and i believe religion. The original Japanese people (The Ainu people) migrated from Korea.
They work with people. Mainly they work with infants to adolescents
Mandate of Israel: No. The so-called baptism in the river Jordan is actually a Torah-based purification ritual called the "MIKVEH". ........................................... Yes John the baptist started baptizing people in the river Jordan.
Ummm, no. People are born as infants on day one of their lives. Not at 99.
Homeless people can be any and every age, from infants to the elderly.