If children are told that Christianity is a true proposition with apologetic methods, then they can be easily unpersuaded by the of the world. If your child experiences a relationship with the Savior, especially when that relationship is founded on a long association with the home church practices of their parents, then nothing that pops out of a high school science book, a clay jar in a mid-Eastern desert, or a test tube in a laboratory will be able to shake them. Some parents want to rush their children into baptism on the assumption that the children might be eternally lost should something happen to them before they are of a proper age. Baptism, however, should only be for those who can understand the life-long commitment that is involved. They may sin but they bear no moral or religious responsibility for sin, and they are innocent of understanding.
Responsibility comes with rational and moral apprehension.
Until by their own attitude they place themselves outside the sheltered sphere, the child is safe within the love that saves. The biblical basis of this may be found in Rom. HCC Magazine Notes 1.