How is christening(?) different from baptism?

Question

I am not a Christian myself, so I get confused. I have attended someone's baptism at a catholic church though all I remember was a lot of singing and standing up and sitting down.. Also the person who out holly water on the kids was impressed that no children cried during the ceremony in the last one week.

Answer 1

The bible talks about believers baptism and not christening babies - this is a tradition of the catholic church.

Christ commanded believers to be baptised when they believed. It is a statement of faith and only for a person who is aware and old enough to know what they are doing.

Answer 2

A christening ceremony is conducted not long after the birth of a child in either a Catholic or Protestant church. It is merely a cermony to clarify for religious and legal purposes who the childs rightful parents are. In other words it is not a statement that the child is a christian or religious believer from birth. But rather that the birth was legitimate and the child is an heir one of many heirs to the fortunes or misfortunes of its parenthood. It is also an agreement that the parents will bring up their child within the faith.

At such a ceremony, witnesses are required to say that they are willing to be God parents of the said child. The origin of this goes back to the middle ages when many women died in childbirth or not long after and the child would necessitate having a substitute parent to take over. This would be a God parent or god parents and was normally other relatives within the family. Sometimes poorer relatives. Today this can be almost anyone most people today don't see the significance and often pick a friend.

In wealthy families the female god parent could be whoever the wetnurse was for the household. As children were often suckled till they were 4 or 5 years of age, by a woman who was in the employ as a wetnurse to the children of the household. You must also remember that even the diets of the wealthy during these medieval days of yore and beyond were not always heathy and infant mortality was high.

Christening and registering a birth became a legality around 1623, as the church synods, Rome, and the various meetings of the council of Trent before and after 1623 became acutely aware of the number of illegitimate births and how unclear inheritence rights had become of man.

Baptism is an adult affair that states here is an adult person who in certain religious sects wishes to be 'saved', and as a result of that desire wishes to be baptised in the way John the Baptist, baptised believers in the river Jordan. The Symbolism of going under the water is death and rising out of the water resurrection and purity towards the living of a good christian life. The cults which practice this are;

Baptists,
Methodists,
Ecumentical Evangelists,

plus one or two others who have come away from the protestant church or Church of England.

Answer 3

A christening is when parents decide to dedicate their child/ren to the christian church, and is not found in the bible. A baptism is where an adult, or mature child, makes a choice to give their life to Jesus, and is a command in the Bible for all believers, as a public show of committment.
I think infant christenings came about because of the high infant mortality rate in the past, parents wanted some sort of assurance that their children would go to God. There is no harm in having a child christened, it may even do some good later on.

Answer 4

infant baptism and christening are pretty much the same thing.

however, neither is scriptural!

the Biblical pattern is they: -
BELIEVED then
were BAPTIZED
and were added to the church.

baptism is an outward sign of the inward change. therefore, it can only be done after the person has been saved. Believers baptism has been likened to wearing a football shirt. it is a sign to others that u support that team. u cud stick an Arsenal supporter or someone with no knowledge of or interest in football in a Man Utd shirt, but it would not make him a Man U supporter. baptizing someone DOES NOT MAKE THEM A CHRISTIAN. accepting Christ as savior does. nor is baptism essential for salvation, although it is scriptural to do so AFTER u have been saved.

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Answer 5

Christening refers back to the certainly naming. Baptism is what's carried out for somebody to circulate into the Christian faith. at an identical time as some denominations have the christening and the baptism on the comparable time (Roman Catholics), it is not inevitably required.

Answer 6

Christening means you are a young child who's ready to begin being brainwashed in the name of the Lord and your parents are shouldered with the responsibility of seeing to a proper brainwashing. Baptism is where you give up all sense of questioning things anymore and make a conscious decision to submit to said brainwashing wholeheartedly as an adult.

Answer 7

Christening is like a dedication of the child to God and baptism is when that person accept God as their personal Savior.

Answer 8

Christeninng is done when a child is born, i mean for a new baby, to welcome the baby and give it a name. Baptism on the other hand is when someone had already grown, so you can be baptised at the age of 20 or even more.

Answer 9

It is the same thing basically. With baptisim, it is not only babies.

chris·ten·ing (krs-nng) KEY

NOUN:

The Christian sacrament of baptizing and naming an infant.

bap·tism (bptzm) KEY

NOUN:

A religious sacrament marked by the symbolic use of water and resulting in admission of the recipient into the community of Christians.
A ceremony, trial, or experience by which one is initiated, purified, or given a name.

Answer 10

Christianing is the process of excepting Jesus into your life and baptism is the process of becoming reborn into the Christian family