My daughter is 6 yrs. old & saw a baptism Sun. in church. Now she wants to be baptised. What is the right age?

Question

Please understand i'm very proud of my daughter & how she strongly believes. But i'm confused about how to help her understand why maybe she should wait for such a serious event b/c she's too young to understand the reason for it & the commitment she's too young to know anything about that comes with baptism. Help! I don't think she's at the right age. Am I wrong?

Answer 1

She should not be baptized until she is old enough or mature enough to understand the significance of what a baptism is. You might want to sit her down and ask her what she thinks a baptism is and then fill in the gaps for her. Let her know what a serious undertaking it is and then support her if she thinks she is ready to take that step.

Answer 2

Baptism is simply an outward expression of what has happened inwardly. Maybe she does understand that Jesus died on the cross for the "bad things" she sometimes does. Maybe she really does love Jesus. I have heard of people as young as 4 trusting the Lord Jesus as their personal Savior; though I don't know at what age they got baptized. Never underestimate the power of the Holy Spirit to give your daughter understanding into the Gospel. Perhaps you and your daughter could meet with the pastor and discuss the Gospel and the significance of baptism. I would not do anything to discourage her from demonstrating her love and child-like faith in Jesus.

Answer 3

I think it is awesome that your young daughter wants to be Baptised. I would say let her be Baptised. In our walk with Christ we gain knowledge and understanding "here a little and there a little". There is nothing saying that when she is older and understands Baptism even more that she cannot get Baptised again, although once is enough. Keeping in mind that Baptism is not required for salvation as the thief on the cross was not Baptised at all.

Answer 4

The true baptism is a baptism of REPENTANCE , so she needs to be of age of account ability of know what it means. It means that you repent of the old sin full fleshly life, that you know Jesus and are symbolically being buried in the tomb and resurrecting into the new life of living for Jesus! Now some people are mature in the lord early I think in some case 4-5 but most later when they become account able and know what it means! Like infant baptism is really nothing, maybe a dedication to the Lord, but the child does not know right from wrong yet and what repentance means.

Answer 5

Your question is perplexing. It is difficult to understand how an 'answer' here would impact such an obscure question. I was, if I remember correctly, 7 & a half when it all made an epiphany to me. Your daugher may merely be letting you know you're on track to getting back on track in a very profound way. You're ability to accept the spirit of the wake up call to rightousness is dependent upon your own convictions. As an unbiased reader, it seems extrodinary to me that the child was not babtised in infantcy [as I had always believed I was] but being bastised again at an older ripe ole age of 6 is an opportunity to re-inforce a splendid gift which is re-inforcable again & again later in life! I've been married for 37 years but it didn't prevent me from re-newing my vows, refreshing my perspectives, to revisit the blessings of my relationship!

Answer 6

i wanted to get baptised when i was 12 and my parents asked me to waite untill i was 16...

well i never got baptised but i did become an ordained minister.
I am a Pagan priest not and am very happy with my life.

i do not think that the baptisim would have changed my life much. but it may change your daughter's. remember that religion is always on an "at will" basis. if she is battised now the ceramony may well influence her young mind and make her a life long lover of her chosen religion.

if you try to talk her out of it it may seem to her like there is something wrong with it and may well create a wedge between her religion and her.

in the end though you have to decide what is best for you and your family. i would say let her do it...it cannot hurt anything.

but it may give her a sense of belonging and cement her faith in the god that you worship..

Answer 7

I'm older, 54 now, and the people I've known that got babtised young, like before their early teens, never understood it, and didn't take it serious. You could ask you minister or what ever to do a kid thing for her, some will some won't. If you are serious about her being sincere with this, then the church should respect your wishes, otherwise, change churches.

Answer 8

When your daughter is able to understand the difference between right and wrong, and is able to state in her own words that she believes in Jesus Christ, then it is time for her to be baptized. The age of baptism is different for each child.

Answer 9

Usually around 12, or puberty. That age is usually associated with knowledge of ones self.

Baptism's aren't done on babies, Christening's are. Baptism's are performed on those old enough to understand it.

Answer 10

Get intense. He won't even teach his delivery certificates or any college records and you think of he needs to tutor the place he became into baptized? He has extra considerable issues to do like fly off to Denmark to get the subsequent Olympics in Chicago, fly his spouse to manhattan to devour some specific meal and considerable issues like that to do. so a techniques as i comprehend the only church that he has attended became into the single in Chicago and he says he by no ability heard or listened to something that preacher mentioned.