Why would we baptize an infant if we understand the gospel clearly? It’s not that we don’t want to sound Catholic or we want to sound less Catholic or anything like this. I want to know why are we doing what we are doing, and, along the way, provide some solutions to some of these problems—again, what happens if the baby dies? Well, then, is it right to talk about baptism as some sort of security blanket for the infant if we already know that baptism is divorced from salvation? Then, of course, the