00:00How are you?
00:21It's great to hear from you again.
00:23And well, as part of this topic of the Holy Spirit
00:26And from this promise that we received at our baptism,
00:30I want to address the topic of infant baptism now,
00:33because the need to do so is not always understood
00:36and above all to see the misconceptions that exist on this subject.
00:41Many of the separated brethren, and especially Jehovah's Witnesses,
00:45They insist that children should not be baptized.
00:48and that baptism must be received as an adult.
00:52If they truly knew what we just said about the Holy Spirit,
00:56of all the gifts and graces that God gives us in baptism,
01:00Everyone would like to receive it as soon as possible, not in adulthood.
01:06This error stems, among other things, from the fact that Jesus was baptized as an adult.
01:12However, there is a big difference between the baptism that Jesus received,
01:18which is the baptism of John,
01:20and that it was only to move towards penance,
01:24while we receive a sacrament,
01:28the sacrament of baptism in the Spirit,
01:31that is, Christian baptism.
01:34Jesus told his disciples to go and baptize every creature,
01:40which certainly includes children.
01:44We also find evidence that the apostles baptized the entire family,
01:50which evidently included children,
01:53since it does not mention that they have been excluded in the different texts.
01:57It is also argued that in order to receive baptism, it is first necessary to believe.
02:03to have faith, which is not entirely true.
02:07According to Jesus, having faith and being baptized are two different things.
02:12as we can see in chapter 16 of Mark.
02:16Faith will need to be developed later,
02:19And the sum of the two is what leads us to salvation.
02:23A person who refuses to believe or who believes,
02:27but who does not bear witness,
02:28does not meet the requirements for salvation.
02:31One of the most evident passages of infant baptism
02:35It is in the passage where Paul and Silas, in Philippi,
02:39where they were arrested,
02:41after being released,
02:43They went to the jailer's house,
02:45And there they baptized the whole family,
02:48which leads us to assume that there would be children,
02:51and they had no training,
02:53They were only baptized.
02:55Over time,
02:57The church saw the need to instruct first
03:00those who were to be baptized,
03:02and the catechumenate was created,
03:05in what the godfather,
03:06a fully formed Christian,
03:08will instruct for about three or four years
03:11to the Christian future.
03:13Therefore, without a godfather,
03:14there would be no baptism,
03:16because this guaranteed the formation of the new Christian.
03:19Nowadays,
03:21The church baptizes children
03:22in the faith of the fathers,
03:24more than the godparents,
03:26hoping that they,
03:27the parents,
03:28whoever is at home,
03:30gradually instill this in the child
03:32an active faith,
03:34that will constitute them
03:35in true disciples of the Lord,
03:38and so they may come to enjoy a day
03:39of the kingdom of heaven.
03:41That's why,
03:42It's not very convenient.
03:44baptize the children
03:45that have no guarantee
03:47that someone can form them
03:49as Christians.
03:51Baptism,
03:52in itself,
03:53It is not a guarantee of salvation,
03:55as the Lord affirms
03:56in the text from Mark that we already saw
03:58and also in Romans 10.
04:01Baptism
04:02must be received from children,
04:05because it makes us children of God,
04:07It incorporates us into the church
04:09and gives us the Holy Spirit,
04:10so we cannot deprive
04:13of these beautiful gifts
04:16to the children,
04:17simply because they don't know
04:18what are they receiving?
04:20In fact,
04:21many of the things
04:22that we receive at birth
04:24we will not be able to use them to their full potential
04:26until we grow up
04:27and not because of that
04:29They don't give them to us.
04:30until we grow up
04:31or conscious.
04:33Let's think, for example,
04:34in health,
04:35education,
04:36social status,
04:38political convictions
04:39or sports.
04:40Likewise,
04:41the graces of baptism
04:42in the child
04:43will use them to the extent
04:44in which it grows
04:45and develop
04:46faith in him.
04:48But it must have
04:49to someone who instructs him
04:51in faith,
04:52because if it doesn't have
04:52who instructs him
04:53in faith,
04:54as we were saying
04:55in our previous chapter,
04:57Well, thanks.
04:58and all
04:59They will eventually die.
05:01What would happen
05:02if we were to deprive
05:03to our children
05:04about vaccines?
05:05It would be an injustice,
05:07it isn't true?
05:07Well, the same thing happens
05:09with baptism.
05:10We cannot deprive them
05:12Thank you for all of these things.
05:13just because they don't know
05:14what they receive.
05:16It's a commitment,
05:17As I was saying earlier,
05:18parental
05:19to see that in its time
05:20know it
05:21and experience it.
05:23As usual,
05:24I invite you to delve deeper
05:25on this topic
05:26by visiting our page
05:28www.evangelizacion.mx
05:31and to see with breadth
05:33the topic
05:33of fundamental evangelization.
05:36I'll see you tomorrow.
05:38to continue
05:38our knowledge
05:39of Jesus
05:40speaking of
05:41purgatory
05:42within the topic
05:44of eternal life
05:45with Jesus.
05:46Receive my blessing
05:47And I'll see you tomorrow.
