re baptism requires faith aaron bryce cardenas writes romans but not all the israelites accepted the good news for isaiah says lord who has believed our message consequently faith comes from hearing the message and the message is heard through the word of christ so then we receive god s gift of faith to us as we hear the message of the gospel faith is a possible response to hearing god s word preached kids are not yet spiritually intellectually or emotionally mature enough to respond to god s word hence they cannot have faith and therefore cannot be raised in baptism to a new life catholics view the effects of baptism slightly differently and that s one primary reason why they baptize babies they believe that baptism produces a change in the soul of the baby quite independently of any volitional act on the part of the baby this change in the baby s soul gives the infant certain capabilities that he would not have without baptism since the infant does not have the use of his intellect and will yet these new faculties are dormant but as the child gets older the gifts of baptism come more and more into play ezekiel the soul who sins will die the son will not share the guilt of the father nor will the father share the guilt of the son the righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against him if you read all of ezekiel you will see that god doesn t hold us guilty for anyone else s sins so we can have no original guilt from adam adam was given a number of gifts by god the chief among them was what catholics call sanctifying grace in the new testament the word used for this is charity by his sin adam lost this grace he didn t lose it just for himself however he lost it for the whole human race because once he lost it he couldn t pass it on to his descendents that s why catholics baptize babies through his original sin adam lost sanctifying grace for all his descendents christ instituted baptism to give it back to everyone babies are not being punished for anything they personally did they are simply lacking in something they need in order to enter heaven
