1. The Bible does not authorize or mention it.

2. The person must depend on the testimony of others for the knowledge of his baptism.

3. It robs the individual of the joy of personal obedience.

4. It is done in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, yet none of the Trinity has authorized it.

5. It is practiced not only without the will of the child, but often against it.

6. New Testament baptism is always a burial in water, never sprinkling or pouring (Rom. 6:3-4).

7. Only those who received the Word of God were baptized (Acts 2:41).

8. Infant baptism is often used as an excuse not to be baptized according to the will of God when one reaches accountable age.

9. Teaching, faith, repentance, confession, must precede baptism (Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38; 8:26-38).

10. Infants are without sin, therefore are fit subjects for the Kingdom of Heaven (Matt. 19:4).

11. Those who were baptized continued steadfastly in the doctrine, fellowship, and breaking of bread (Acts 2:42), impossibilities for infants.