Need some good advice

[janryboy]

Eto lang eh…ano ba sinusununod ng Catholics? Doctrines or bible? oh please do not tell me na kinukuha nila ang doctrine sa bible…last I heard…walang bayad ang kasal…at mga binabaptize eh may isip na. Rosary? galing sa bible? saan ba sa bible makikita yung coronation ni mary? simpleng tanong na ayaw sagutin ng mga pari…

^its written in tagalog but ill translate it…a post from a nonCatholics, i want to refute but i want to be sure…so guys kindly give me some additional answers…

**translation:

here it is…what do Catholics follow? Doctrines or Bible? oh please do not tell me that they based their Doctrine with the Bible…last I heard that there is no pay for marrying couple(matrimonal charge) and baptize those children/babies. Rosary? Was it written in the Bible? Where is in the Bible you could find the coronation of Mary…these are simple questions that some priests dont answers…**

thanks in advance!

 

[runandsew]

As for the Baptism of baby’s and infants, The bible doesn’t say if they were baptized, or just adults were. So you would have to go to the many times that the Bible says,“and the whole household were baptized” You could assume out of this that some of the households would have had small children.
But to say that only adults were baptized, is as much as a guess and infants, the Bible just doesn’t give us that percise information.
You can go to the early church writings where it talks about infant baptism.
"Origen, for instance, wrote in the third century that “according to the usage of the Church, baptism is given even to infants” (Holilies on Leviticus, 8:3:11 [A.D. 244]). The Council of Carthage, in 253, condemned the opinion that baptism should be withheld from infants until the eighth day after birth. Later, Augustine taught, “The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned . . . nor is it to be believed that its tradition is anything except apostolic” (Literal Interpretation of Genesis 10:23:39 [A.D. 408]). "
(from Catholic Answers track - Infant Baptism)

So this would show that the earliest christians would have understood that baptism of infants was the norm.

 

[runandsew]

As for the Rosary, most of the prayers are from scripture. The actual prayer of the Rosary, I think was used in place of the praying of the Psalms. For people that couldn’t memorize all the Psalms. But you would have to look up the history of it to get the correct info.
And the matrimonial charge is not a Church teaching, it is a practice or courtesy, not a doctrine.

By the way, does this person do a Wednesday night bible study, because that is not in the Bible?