What is the difference between Christening(protestants) and Baptizing (Catholics) babies?

Question

Are they not the same exact thing?

Who were they praying too? I know the Catholics pray to Jesus and worship only Jesus.

Catholics also baptize in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit

Answer 1

To the poster who said they pray to other people, who??

Answer 2

It depends on how they baptize.

I am not catholic so I don't know how the procedure goes...

I went to one once on a visit for confirmation..and it was scary because they were praying to people other than Jesus...

I can only say that the protestants baptize in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit

Answer 3

in many cases thay are combined... but a Christening in one sense, is a formal naming of the child and a statement of dedication of the parents to raise the child in God's Word.... Baptizing a child is not Biblicaly supported.... the catholics, and some Protestants, believer a child must be baptized to assure them entry into heaven if they should die before they are old enough to make the choice of acceptiong God or not for themselves...

Answer 4

Protestants- Baptism Is Immersion.
http://www.bible.ca/interactive/salvation-19-baptism-is-immersion.htm

Answer 5

protestants: Dedicate thier babies to Jesus by prayer & using annointing oil in some cases. We would ask Jesus to influence the children or babys life & spirituality...

Catholic: sprinkle holy water on thier baby & usually say something like "Hail Mary full of grace..."
The Catholic idea is to put the chiulds spiritual develpoment in the Catholic system of religion which SOMETIMES has little to do with Jesus Christ...

Answer 6

Neither has any validity... They assume that babies are born with the guilt of sin. This is CLEARLY UNTRUE.

Original sin IS a LIE!!!

When you realize this, you understand that the doctrine of "immaculate conception" and infant baptism are both meaningless. No one is born with the guilt of sin. Since everyone is born innocent, there is no need to figure out some way for Jesus to be born without guilt for Adam's sin.

Ezekiel 18:1 A message came to me from the LORD. He said, 2 “You people have a proverb about the land of Israel. What do you mean by it? It says, “‘The parents eat sour grapes. But the children have a bitter taste in their mouths.’

3 “You will not use that proverb in Israel anymore,” announces the LORD and King. “And that is just as sure as I am alive. 4 Everyone belongs to me. Father and son alike belong to me. ->People will die because of their own sins.

[ God presents a hypothetical family of alternating good and evil fathers to explain this teaching:]

5 “Suppose a godly man does what is fair and right.
...
9 He follows my rules. He is faithful in keeping my laws. He always does what is right. You can be sure he will live,” announces the LORD and King. 10 “But suppose he has a mean son who harms other people. The son commits murder. Or he does some other things that are wrong.
...14 “But suppose that son has a son of his own. And the son sees all of the sins his father commits. He sees them, but he does not do them.
...17 ... He will not die because of his father’s sin. You can be sure he will live. 18 But his father will die because of his own sin. He got rich by cheating others. He robbed his relatives. He also did what was wrong among his people.

19 “But you still ask, ‘Is the son guilty along with his father?’ No! The son did what was fair and right. He was careful to keep all of my rules. So you can be sure he will live.

Read the whole chapter and you will see I have not lifted the passage out of its context. I just skipped sections that elaborate on what they did or did not do.

…Many respond to this teaching with Romans 5:12, “Sin entered the world because one man sinned. And death came because of sin. Everyone sinned, so death came to all people.” Paul here is teaching that death is the universal CONSEQUENCE of sin and NOT a result of an INDIVIDUAL’S GUILT for sin as “original sin” teaches. Observe the context:

... as Paul goes on:

Romans 5:13 Before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not judged when there is no law. 14 Death ruled from the time of Adam to the time of Moses. Death ruled even over those who did not sin as Adam did. He broke God’s command. But he also became a pattern of the One who was going to come.

Death is NOT a consequence of guilt for "original sin" but sin in general...

Ezekiel 18 is all about GUILT. God explains very clearly that guilt ONLY attaches for a person's OWN SIN. It CANNOT be inherited as the doctrine of "original sin" claims, thus the notion which forms the foundation of the argument is false as are all deductions based on it.

The doctrine can be traced to misunderstandings of Romans 5:12, along with a few Old Testament passages which relate to the CONSEQUENCES of sin in the world and NOT of GUILT FOR sin as gets clarified when we look at the context of the passage instead of lifting it from its context to prove a point.

Answer 7

Protestants are heretics so they cannot expect redemption.
That's the major difference.
(According to the catholic church).

Answer 8

Yes, both are waste of water.

Answer 9

Different techniques to drowning the little buggers.

Answer 10

my point exactly!!