I don't believe in baptizing babies.

I believe in original sin.

@emberfly_layouts@xanga - I didn't say I believe it....I am asking for scripture for the belief.

Read Polycarp. He studied under John the Gospel. 

Some surface level background reading- Here

Augustine kind of cemented the idea of original sin into the church (with the addition of sex being the vehicle for the original sin). Martin Luther and John Calvin were pretty much still in line with this view all those years later.

I'm still kind of curious what the church would be like today if Aquinas' views had held more lasting sway as opposed to Augustine's.

@MysteriumFidei@xanga - 

Ah, sorry should've been more specific. Was referring to Augustine's association of sex with original sin. Has had a pretty defining affect on western society, and still is going strong in the US (less in UK and even less in mainland Europe) [speaking in broad generalizations].

Also (to go some off topic):
Aquinas' emphasis of the marriage of faith with reason is something that many christians don't particularly put much weight in either. It is hard to imagine creationism still being discussed if reason was regarded as complementary rather than something that should be trumped by faith if there is a percieved contradiction.

Try Romans 5:12, 18, 19. 

And from the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC): 

Following Saint Paul, the Church has always taught that the overwhelming misery which oppresses men and their inclination toward evil and death cannot be understood apart from their connection with Adam's sin and the fact that he has transmitted to us a sin with which we are all born afflicted, a sin which is the "death of the soul." (CCC, 403).

In John 1:29 John the Baptist sees Jesus and proclaims, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world.  Read on and we understand John and Jesus to be talking about Baptism.

And from Genesis 3, we know that man was created pure.  After Adam and Eve ate the apple he punished not only Adam, Eve and the Serpent then and there, but for future generations.

@LoBornlite@xanga - except that, things such as thinking lustful thoughts are considered sins as well.  there are no literal repercussions for that.  but if sin is inheritable, and my mom ever once thought a nasty thought about some cute guy, i'm carrying the burden of that sin as well.

either all sin is morally inheritable, or no sin is morally inheritable.  to try to reach a gray area is just a vain attempt at reconciling a contradiction of theology.

@LoBornlite@xanga - also where do you get the idea that it was an apple that they ate. The bible does not say apple

@Kristenmomof3@xanga - also where do you get the idea that it was an apple that they ate.

From the Revelife picture.  Sorry about that!  The Bible says "fruit".

I believe in original sin, all humans are born depraved and wicked...look it up. There are many verses about it!

I don't believe in infant baptism though, it's not the baptism that saves you, so that's going to do absolutely no good.

@Kristenmomof3@xanga - Adam and Eve were the only ones made in God's image.  Adam and Eve then sinned and God gave the curse.  In Genesis 3:15-20 there are changes to the nature of Adam and Eve due to the curse and sin entering into the world which are not a part of God's attributes because God doesn't die except for the human attributes He put on which did.  After Adam and Eve, the Bible says that children were made in Adam's fallen image:

Genesis 5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: 

I want to make the distinction that the Bible doesn't say that Seth was made in God's image but that Seth was made in Adam's image.

Death wasn't part of Adam's image before the fall:

Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. 

Children die and death is part of the curse so death is something that wasn't there in the beginning.  Is death inherited?

I don't have my Systematic Theology by Dr. Norman Geisler or other doctrinal books in front of me but Psalm 51:5 and Psalm 58:3 speak of original sin:

Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Psalm 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 

As far as babies being baptized, I think it is an unscriptural practice.

Mark 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

You can't believe for babies so you can't save them by baptizing them.  This doesn't mean that babies are damned.

There are also examples of God witholding judgment from people who don't know the difference between right and wrong so the whole idea of baptizing infants is nonsense:

Deuteronomy 1:39  Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and

.

Jonah 4:11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and [also] much cattle?

Luke 18:16 But Jesus called them [unto him], and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

2 Samual 12:22  And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell [whether] GOD will be gracious to me, that the

may live?

2 Samual 12:23  But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again?

, but he shall not return to me.

@Kristenmomof3@xanga - I believe in what you called "Yetzer Hara."  I beleive that given enough time every baby born will sin (except baby Jesus, obviously).  I don't believe in infant baptism because I think baptism should be part of your declaration to follow Christ and you need to be older to actually make that declaration.

@coolmonkey@xanga - Babies who die before they accept Christ....I don't know.  I have five siblings who all died in utero so I've spent a lot of time thinking about it and finally realized I'll never know for sure but that if God is all merciful and all just and perfectly good and holy...whatever He does in that situation is right.  And it's not like I have any control over it anyway.  I like to think my siblings are in heaven though.