Do you believe in baptism of children? Why..and how did you get that idea!!!?

Question

what is the purpose of baptism?

Answer 1

HELL NO!!! oops I am tempting The Powers That Be Into Smiting My Sorry A*s. Crap.

Answer 2

In the Old testament they practiced Circumcision (they did this to children 8 days old!) It was a sign that they were are a part of God people. In the New Testament they practice baptism (to children also - see Acts 16:33 the whole household was baptized). Baptism does not save or cleans but it a sign of being a part of God family. A person must accept his baptism at some point when baptized or later. In the Old Testament they observed the Passover. In the New Testament they observe the Lord's Supper. See the connection between the Old and New?

Answer 3

Being baptized is like binge "reborn" into Jesus Christ, instead of wearing your sin, your wear him, I know it sounds weird but go with it. Mark 16:16 states, "16Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned." And in John 3:5 Jesus says, "5Jesus answered, 'I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.'" By just reading these two, small verses, you must realize how important it is to be baptized. If you do not get baptized, you do not go to heaven. It's that simple. However, it's a big decision, once you are baptized you must be a Christian, do the right thing, no matter how hard it is, the decision is life-changing. I encourage you to learn more about baptism you can visit this site for an on line Bible:
BibleGateway.com (use the New International Version...it's easier to read)
And as far as the baptism of children, it is not required until the child is at an age where he/she can make their own decision to live for God, which is around 12 or 13. If a child is baptized as a baby, it is strongly recommended that they get baptized again, if they want to live for God.
Good Luck & God Bless

Answer 4

From the earliest days of the church, the apostles baptized children, teenagers, adults, slaves ... everybody ... to make them part of God's church, to wash away original sin, which truly does exist, and to make each person an adopted child of God and co-heir with Jesus Christ, and to confer all the rights and responsibilities that accompany one's initiation into God's church.

The bible has little to say about this because nobody ever though anyone would seriously question it.

After all, we had circumcision, then we had John the Baptist, then we had Jesus in the Jordan, then we had thousands baptized into the church on Pentecost, then we had a bunch more baptisms throughout the rest of the new testament.

They all worked pretty much the same. Baptizer. Holy Spirit. Baptizee. Water. Words. Done!

Everybody knew exactly how and why baptism worked. It works exactly as the Catholic church always said it worked.

There was only one way to get into the church for 1500 years! There's still only one way. Baptism. It never changed!

You bible only types are engaging in nothing but wild speculation on this.

I hope God accepts your strange variations and innovative techniques. Otherwise, you might have lots of 'xplainin' to do!

Answer 5

NO. No where in the Bible is their any example of baptizing children. The reason it became a practice is because the Chaotic Church realized in order to keep the people religious, you must get them young. They claim it must be done because we are guilty of Adams sin, or what these people are calling original sin. How can that be? We weren't even there. I think we suffer as a condition of Adams sin, not because we are guilty. What kind of a "loving" God would send a baby to hell? (Not that I believe in going to hell, but you probably do.)The word Baptism comes from the Greek work baptizmo meaning to dye. Like dyeing your clothes. Which means you must be fully submerged. This take sprinkling out. Baptism is necessary, is it a commandment. "Repent, and be baptized every one of you" (Acts 2:38). But it does you no good if you have no understanding of what you are doing, which is symbolically burying oneself and emerging as an obedient servant. We must do the will of our father.

Answer 6

Baptism is commanded by the Lord. Baptism of children is useless, frankly. Believer's baptism is the right way.

Answer 7

I had my daughter baptized when she was 3 weeks old. As a Catholic, I was raised to believe that we are cleansed of the original sin during the rite of Baptism. However it is the child’s choice to continue those same beliefs during adulthood with the Sacrament of Confirmation.

Answer 8

Baptism is the first of three sacraments of initiation into the Catholic Church. (It is also widely practised by pretty much all Christian sects.) It is a symbol of a new birth, a death to the earthly world and a new life as a member of God's family in the death and resurrection of Christ. It also represents a cleansing from original sin in the same respect.

The idea was "gotten" from right in the bible, even Jesus was baptized! John was calling people to cleanse their spirits to make room for the love of God in their hearts, and baptizing them in the river Jordan. (See the Gospel of Mark.)

Yes, I do believe in baptism. I have a baby due in October, and I fully intend to have it initiated into God's church. It is my responsibility to care for both my baby's physical life and spiritual one.

Answer 9

Jesus requires baptism for entering heaven. Jesus makes clear that children are not to be kept away from Him. The practice of baptizing children and infants was a practice that came from the Apostles themselves.

Answer 10

children should not be baptized until they are able to understand what it means and the commitment they are making when they do it. Anyone who believes that a child would go to hell just because they were not baptized before they are not able to understand this does not truly know God. Besides is there really a hell? I think that was just a scare tactic that the old church made up to rule over people the way they wanted them to. Besides when people say it comes straight from the bible, how do you know that it came from God and not the greedy King who had it translated?


Nice pic by the way. you are in an asking mood aren't you?

Answer 11

When one think of baptism, he would naturally see the picture of John the Baptist baptizing people who repented from their sins through his preachings. It also can depict in one's mind the baptism of Jesus Christ in the river Jordan by no other than John the Baptist himself. I believe that the most important thing to remember and understand while thinking about these Bilbical scenes is that those who were baptized were formerly non Christians, naturally because Jesus at that time was just only about to start his messianic glory. Meaning they were actually former Jews and pagans who heard the word of God through John and accepted it and accepted it without question. So, looking at this angle there is already a big difference between baptizing a former non believer and baptizing a christian or an offspring of a christian.

When Christianity started to spread and was known to mankind, baptisms were done not to pagans or nonbelievers only but mostly to Christian children born of Christian parents. The word has been accepted before the child was born of Christian parents, that's why the child is considered and naturally accepted to become a follower of Christ as he grows old. What can change a child's mind as he mature has not actually anything to do with his baptism as a child but because of the good or bad influences that he sees around him.

Baptizing him at a certain stipulated legal age doesn't actually matter at all because it can not give complete guarantee that this certain individual will become a true follower of christ or not. Parental guidance, education, peers, social and psychological status and even society can all affect his belief as he grows. It is not actually baptism that does it but how spiritual that boy has been raised or become as he grows up to be a young man. This actually has a very undesirable effect in democratic societies like ours when the child has only been started to be aware of his christian background by the time he reaches maybe 16, 19, 21 or 25 years old depending on his exposure to the faith. This is a dangerous situation because when the child lack proper christian guidance by those who are expected to raise and educate him and reaches the age of maturity, oftentimes pangs of paganism already has seeped into his system through influences that he sees around him, the difficulties of life's challenges that may influence him to question and be critical of his faith instead of believing. When the answers that he finds does not satisfies his confusion, he might seek it from those who may point to him the easier path for his inquiries and might accept it as more logical. This is when the problem starts and this is actually silently creeping into the main pipeline of the christian faith clogging its evangilical capability further decreasing its capability to sustain the very Life and essence of Christianity. And this is what's happening to America.

Age in itself does not guarantee total acceptance of faith except when he truly understand what he is into and accept what his faith is really about. So, considering this situation I believe that baptism can be done at any age because such guarantee to become a good christian does not lie on such premise, it is more than that. Catholic parents believe that by baptizing a child and confirming his christian status is more logical believing that through baptism the child will be guided by the Holy Spirit as he grows being constantly aware that there will come a time when his child will become independent enough to praise God truly through their proper guidance as Christian parents.