by Gene De Lalla

Created on: May 06, 2008   Last Updated: May 14, 2008

5/3/08
In St. Peter's Second Epistle, chapter three, verse 16-17, we read: "As also in all his [St. Paul's] epistles, speaking in them of these things: in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as also the other Scriptures, to the own perdition. You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, beware; lest, being led away by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness."

It is obvious - at least to me - that St. Peter is not warning those who read Scripture (we all should!), but those who interpret it to their own destruction. But how could reading - and interpreting Scripture lead to one's perdition? Isn't reading Scripture profitable in all things pertaining to God's revealed word? The answer is simple enough if one sees the proliferation of sects that claim this belief or that - all based on the SAME Scripture verses!

Keeping St. Peter's warning in mind, let us take a close look at the question at hand: Newborns and heaven: is baptism a requirement?

First, I ask all those that are reading my article to think about this: What if I said that for 1,500 (one-thousand-five-hundred) years a group of people from all over the world, professing a religion, were said to be wrong in their beliefs by someone who came along and said that he and only he discovered and knew the real truth of what to believe in order to be saved?

Furthermore, what if I said the man that "discovered" the "real truth" of what is needed to be saved, also threw out seven books of what his predecessors had believed and changed some of the wording of that august book to fit his newly "discovered truth"? In addition, what if those people for 1,500 years had been taught, believed and practiced a certain "ritual" concerning their newborns, only to have that practice condemned or at least declared not necessary for salvation because the real "truth" of the matter had now been "discovered"?

Well, that is what I have read on Helium!

It seems that infant Baptism is not a necessary requirement for salvation. Even though it had always been believed, taught, and practiced for 1,500 years by faithful Catholics who lived and died for the true faith of Christ. Ludicrous! And the "book" that I am talking about is the Bible.

It was Martin Luther (an apostate Catholic priest), a creature of the Creator, who took it upon himself to throw out seven books of the (Creator's) Bible simply because they did not fit in with his version of what the Bible

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