2006-09-06 09:42:53 · 12 answers · asked by kate 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Same thing...different religions.
Christened is used by catholics when christening their young.
Baptize is by Christians or something like that, they baptize adults or older kids.
But it's all the same to me, dunking someone in the water.
2006-09-08 14:47:59 · answer #1 · answered by taran_is_here 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't think they're the same, though they're meant to fulfill the same purpose.
Being christened normally happens as a baby, and are performed primarily by Catholics and Methodists. Both groups do this instead of baptism. Baptist, and many other protestant groups do baptisms at an older age. The idea is that the person has to be at an age where they choose it out of their own free will, and it's normally performed by completely submersing the body underwater as a statement of faith.
Both are meant to fulfill that requirement of public acknowledgement of faith, but often baptized people don't like to accept the idea that all you need is to be christened as a baby, which is just sprinkling with water.
However, some people like to dedicate their babies, which is just like christening them, and some people like to be publicly baptized even after they were christened as a baby. Both rituals have their good points.
Hope that helps
2006-09-06 09:56:12 · answer #2 · answered by locusfire 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Technically, you're christened when you are given your name. For many churches, christening and baptizing are done as separate times, the latter when the individual has chosen to be baptized or to signify one's relationship with "the family of God". So the answer to your question is yes.
2006-09-06 09:49:24 · answer #3 · answered by ensign183 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are two seperate things in Protestant (non-Catholic) faiths. Christening is being named and dedicated back to the Lord. In some churches, this is also when Godparents are designated. Being baptized is being dunked (for lack of a better word) in water as an outward symbol of accepting Jesus, into your heart, as your savior. So, depending on your faith, they can be two seperate things.
2006-09-06 10:21:39 · answer #4 · answered by Annieo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is possible, When I was born my parents had me Christened then when I was older I was baptized.
2006-09-06 10:10:54 · answer #5 · answered by mysticways2u2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you are "christened" you are being baptized. It's the same thing.
2006-09-06 09:49:12 · answer #6 · answered by GreenEyes 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are the same. Catholics say christened and Protestant/Lutherans say baptized. Born Agains do dedications. Jews have baby naming or circumcision....all basically the same thing.
2006-09-06 09:50:39 · answer #7 · answered by Tiffany 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, "christened" means baptized, so if you´ve been christened, you´ve been baptized.
2006-09-06 09:47:09 · answer #8 · answered by Double 709 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My husband is a minister in the Lutheran Church (protestant). His answer is that baptise and christening are the same thing, just different names. It depends on what denomination you are as to what you call it. Someone said that baptising happens when you are older and is dunking... we had our baby "baptised" at 2mo and only had water sprinkled on bub's head. It's just that the Lutheran Church calls it baptism.
2006-09-06 14:04:59 · answer #9 · answered by EC Mama 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depending on what faith you are apart of, you can Dedicate you child to God, that way when hes old enough he can choose for himself if he wishes to be baptized or not.
2006-09-06 12:06:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋