Here are some quotes from Origen on infant baptism, including the quote I used in my last post about Origen: 1. In his Homilies on Luke (XIV on 2:22a) he remarks “therefore children also are baptized”. 2. In his Homilies on Leviticus (VIII 3 on 12.2) he says baptism is given “according to custom of the Church, to infants Continue reading

“For this reason, moreover, the Church received from the apostles the tradition of baptizing infants too.”  – Origen, Commentary on Romans, (ca.244 A.D.) “Origen could, of course, have been wrong about the apostolic origins of infant baptism. He was writing, it must be recalled, the best part of two centuries after the time of the apostles, and Continue reading