Augustine seemed to take a keen interest to the early years of his life, especially concerning his infancy years. He made the notion of his early years meant nothing to him, despite others telling him all that he did. He said we were in a state of being truly jailed within the body because the infant's body was weak and small, so it could not carry out the normal bodily desires. He also states that as an infant, you have little ways to express yourself through communication. It's so true, and this brings up the idea of infant baptism for me. Is the practice of baptism really only effective when the individual can make the decision for himself? I think so, as I myself was the one to decide on when I wanted to be baptized or even at all. I believe it would only make sense because an individual that makes the decision himself would have to know to some degree on what the act of baptism does and what it means for the individual. While an infant is barely conscious to what is happening around them, so having an infant baptism seems a bit useless if the individual has little to no idea to why, in essence, being dunked into a pool of water in front of a bunch of people.
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