Why wouldn’t a Priest just walk around non stop (especially in Muslim communities) sprinkling people with water and ‘baptizing’ them if knowledge and consent of the one being baptized is not necessary (as is the case with an infant)?
People must ask for Baptism. Or the parents ask for the Baptism of their child.
For one thing, the sacrament of baptism may not be “sprinkled.”
Because that priest would be attacked and killed. Islam IS the religion of peace, you know.
At least one parent should be a Christian—so the baptised child will be raised up in the faith. That’s why random sprinkling is not, and never has been, done.
In certain first-generation Christian countries (say. in Africa) if very young children are in a Christian school, they will be baptized, even if both parents are not Christians—as they will be raised up in the faith in the school.
“Knowledge and consent” are seen—for infants—in the hands of the parents, or to those (such as the school) to whom the parents have given oversight to.
Why wouldn’t a Priest just walk around non stop (especially in Muslim communities) sprinkling people with water and ‘baptizing’ them if knowledge and consent of the one being baptized is not necessary (as is the case with an infant)?
But it seems strange to me that if it was alright then why did Jesus not get Baptized until he was nearly thirty.