What is the Catholic teaching on 1 Cor. 1:8?

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This is better attuned to the text.

Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.
1 John 3:6 NET

It’s not makes a practice of sinning it’s sins.
 
If just posting a “standard Catholic response” is addressing the matter, instead of analyzing the text. But it’s not.
 
As do Orthodox, Lutherans, Coptics, Presbyterians, to name a few.

What’s your point?
 
The thing is the Bible says the exact opposite about apostasy that apostates aren’t true believers.

The Bible never says not to baptize infants.
 
I have an ex non denominational mother so I know the ropes.

The dealbreaker is the efficacy of being baptized into Christ which you do not hold to.
 
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Your confusion lies with the fact that Christ has done it all for mankind.
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And yet we must put our trust in Him. If we didn’t have to accept this gift, then there’d.be no need for this conversation.
 
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever disobeys the Son will not see life, but must endure God’s wrath.
John 3:36 NRSV-CI
 
The fact is those sacraments are channels of the grace He gave us and those works are how we continue in God’s kindness. Which is what @fhansen and I have said all along
 
It seems you like to debate strawmen.

Name one time when I said anything to the contrary.
 
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No. You didn’t want to. @fhansen and I pulled Scripture passages that speak of this very thing.
 
The head and by extension the family decided to receive baptism.
 
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If there were infants, they could not hear or believe the word of God

Why baptize them?
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Because that is the initiation of a member in the covenant.

Baptism in the New Covenant is what circumcision was in the Old.
 
And Abraham would be cut off if he wasn’t circumcised.

God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations. Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”
Genesis 17:9‭, ‬14 NRSV-CI

Similarly salvation is tied to baptism. You cannot be saved without it.

Jesus answered, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit."
John 3:5 NRSV-CI

And Paul explicitly links the two.

In him you also were circumcised – not, however, with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal of the fleshly body, that is, through the circumcision done by Christ. Having been buried with him in baptism, you also have been raised with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.
Colossians 2:11‭-‬12 NET
 
What do you think would’ve happened if he told God, “Sorry it’s too painful?”
 
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