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Pilgrim said:
The question is, what do YOU believe takes place in baptism, without regard to the age of the recipient, unless it matters in your view?

Age is irrelevant. The calling of the Holy Spirit to regeneration and faith through baptism is solely at the pleasure of God not according to any intellectual capacity within man. "The promise is you and to your children." Acts 2:38, 39.

If God is pleased to justify an infant or adult at the moment of his baptism, He will perform it. Acts 2:38; Acts 22:16. If God is pleased to justify an infant or an adult through the preached word before or after baptism, He will perform it. Rom. 10:17; John 17:20. The reception of the washing of regeneration in Holy Baptism is not tied to the moment of administration of the water. 1 Cor. 6:11; Gal. 3:26, 27; Eph. 5:25, 26; Mark 16:16.

The moment an unbaptized infant or an adult becomes regenerate (justification by faith), he desires baptism. Acts 8:35-38. Mark 10:13-15; John 3: 5,6. The unregenerate and unbelieving despise baptism. Luke 7:20.

The moment a baptized infant or adult becomes regenerate (justification by faith), he is immediately returned to his baptism wherein all his sins are washed away in the blood of Christ. Titus 3:5; Rev. 7:14; Rom. 6:3; 1 Peter 3:21.