Helpless babies and sinners
"Helpless" babies and sinners in the Bible are discussed in Ephesians 2:11-16 and Romans 5:12-19; Romans 5:6-11 and 8:31-39; 2 Timothy 2:13 and 2 Corinthians 1:19-22 and John 10:35. This directly relates to the subject of Salvation and Infant baptism.
The theological controversy between Catholicism / Orthodoxy, and the Protestant division between Reformation Theology and Arminianism, is rooted in the Gospel argument that Jesus died to save the helpless and powerless who have no faith, "having no hope and without God in the world" [1] No one is more helpless than the unborn, newborn, infant, baby, or child in arms who cannot walk, and has no conscious faith and no conscious hope [2] Yet Jesus says, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a man be born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God."
Taken all together within the context of the whole of the Bible and together with the Christian belief that God cannot contradict Himself, and that scripture cannot be broken, infant baptism is supported by the Bible. [3]
The word "faith" does not appear in any of these passages. Infants without faith and hope and God are helpless, and God saves them "while they are still helpless" by baptism with water and the word [4].
See also
Salvation: declarational salvation and ontological salvation