why do we need to do confirmation?

Question

pls help i dont really know why do we need to do it.....
its just my homework
and i ve been confirmed already

I dont really understand why so pls help me

Answer 1

You are considered to be of the age of reason & are confirming your belief in religious teachings. I doubt everyone confirmed really feels this way. Most are going though the motions at the tender age of 13 or so...& you question actually gives evidence of this.

Answer 2

No one has to do anything, you have free will and can choose but in the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Church confirmation is practised and it is a ritual in which older children or adults can confirm the baptismal vows made on their behalf when they were baptised as infants. You can find out more on the RC/C of E websites. You really should not have been confirmed if you do not know what it is as it should be done from a point of understanding. That you don't know makes it a little meaningless and one of those things that people do because they think they have to whether they believe or not, e.g. like getting the baby 'done' in the first place, one of the most miss-used rituals of all time I think. However, it is not too late to research more and you may find it more meaningful.

Answer 3

When you were baptised, your God Parents made a vow/promise to lead you in the way of God.

Confirmation is pretty much the same except you are making the promise/vow for yourself. When you were old enough to do so.

CofE usually around the age of 12 and the Catholics are younger around 8.

Good luck with your home work

Answer 4

Older Catholics will remember Confirmation as the moment when their identity was changed: They "received the Holy Spirit" and became "soldiers of Christ." Today Confirmation is often defined as a sacrament of mature Christian commitment. It is the occasion when young people baptized as infants put their "personal signature" on their parents' decision.

Answer 5

The short answer is that we do not need to "do confirnation" many Christian denominations do not have this. I believe there is a very real concern that it may not always achieve what it is intended to. I believe there is a real danger that it may reduce a real "born again" experience with Jesus to a ritual, effectively substituting "faith" for "works".

Eph 2:8-9
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. (KJV)

Answer 6

in the catholic faith they get confirmed at 7 just the same as being baptised at birth which im not to keen on. i got confirmed 2 years ago as an adult because i wanted to devote my life to God. i want to lead a christian life and try hard to be good and faithful to God.

Answer 7

That is a denominational requirement for some churches. It just means that you have learned, or have been exposed to a certain amount of doctrinal material.

Answer 8

That figures. You've already made your confirmation and still don't know what it means. That's a true christian waste of time and money. Bet your parents had to pay the church for that "vow" didn't they?

Answer 9

as i am a master mind in the spritual tantra and fortune and too partical and scientific and without thease nothing matter to believe in any religion and spriutal and any god too

Answer 10

Go to the Catechism of the Catholic Church and read about it - http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p2s2c1a2.htm

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