Chris Payne is quite right to say St Paul was not baptised until well after his second birthday (The Argus, May 6).
Indeed, he was probably about 30 when he was baptised, soon after his Damascus Road experience when, three times in the Book of Acts, he tells of how Jesus Christ appeared to him.
For nearly three centuries there are no records of infant baptisms and the people who were baptised were those professing a personal faith in Christ.
Even as late as the 4th century, the great Catholic saint, Augustine, who had a Christian mother, Monica, was baptised as a young man in his early thirties by Bishop Ambrose of Milan after a conversion experience from a profligate life.
-Rev John Webster, Hove
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