I was baptized as an infant shortly after I was born into this world but I did not become a child of God until I was truly born again of the Spirit in 1989! The Roman Catholic teaching that an infant is "born again" and becomes a "child of God" when they are baptized by a Catholic priest is a FALSE teaching! In fact if you get baptized as an adult that does NOT save you either! I was SAVED before I went down into the Baptismal pool and I gave my testimony before my full immersion in water. I thank God for his mercy toward me! John 3:6-8 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. [7] Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. [8] The wind bloweth where it listeth [wishes], and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.