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In the Tracts section of this website under “Immaculate Conception and Assumption” the following passage was said:
“But what about Romans 3:23, “all have sinned”? Have all people committed actual sins? Consider a child below the age of reason. By definition he can’t sin, since sinning requires the ability to reason and the ability to intend to sin. This is indicated by Paul later in the letter to the Romans when he speaks of the time when Jacob and Esau were unborn babies as a time when they “had done nothing either good or bad” (Rom. 9:11).”
If this is indeed a valid interpretation of the scripture, then why is infant baptism a necessity? It would stand to reason that if someone under the age of reason is not capable of sin then they are not in need of redemption from said sin.
“But what about Romans 3:23, “all have sinned”? Have all people committed actual sins? Consider a child below the age of reason. By definition he can’t sin, since sinning requires the ability to reason and the ability to intend to sin. This is indicated by Paul later in the letter to the Romans when he speaks of the time when Jacob and Esau were unborn babies as a time when they “had done nothing either good or bad” (Rom. 9:11).”
If this is indeed a valid interpretation of the scripture, then why is infant baptism a necessity? It would stand to reason that if someone under the age of reason is not capable of sin then they are not in need of redemption from said sin.