Why do you do it? Somebody was telling me that you guys do it because you believe that children are a sin when they're born so you have to purify them. Is that true? To me that doesn't make sense (when children are born I believe that they're pure, what sin could they have possibly commit?) so can you give me a helpful link about this.
2007-11-24 18:02:21 · 14 answers · asked by hello.2.u.2 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no,,,,,some do though....we do belive that a child need s to be rededicated to christ....that is when u ask christ to take it's life and hold in his grace and protect and and thank him for giving you the child,.....we belive that children are a gift from god....the rededication to christ is a tempory "fix" your asking god to guide the child in the path he would like you to go down...but once a child learns and understands a sin he is respnsible for not commiting it...and once a child is 12 they must start making thier own religious decisions....about not commiting a sin....some believe that untill u are 12u will automatically get into heaven
2007-11-24 18:12:12 · answer #1 · answered by shaq-daddy 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Children are closer to God than people who have grown to know sin. All children come from God, of course they are born without sin. No spirit is "unclean" to begin with.
That is exactly Jesus' Prayer of Thanksgiving. (Luke 10:21)
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2010:21;&version=51;
Keep in mind Jesus and the Apostles were going about preaching the kingdom of God during this time period.
Baptism at any age is largely symbolic. Has it's symbolism gotten lost through time? Does anyone understand forgiveness?
2007-11-24 19:12:10 · answer #2 · answered by wise1 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Infant baptism is a Catholic tradition.
Protestants baptize our children when they are of the 'age of understanding,' when they know the difference between what is right & what is wrong & ONLY AFTER they understand what it means to be baptized.
It is NOT TRUE that we see our children as sin when they're born.
We see our children as gifts from God, and Protestants dedicate our children to the Lord as a recognition of this.
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." (James 1:17 KJV)
2007-11-24 18:20:45 · answer #3 · answered by cataliz <SFCU> 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The first century Christians did not baptize they're infants. It's not even something Jesus told his disciples to do. What he said at Matthew 28:19,20 was "Go, therefore, and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them....teaching them all the things I have commanded you."
First century Christians got baptized AFTER they had accepted the Christian message which means they were old enough to understand it and decide for themselves whether they wanted to get baptized or not.
Infant baptism is not supported by the Bible, therefore, true Christians do not do it.
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2007-11-24 18:31:43 · answer #4 · answered by aseptic technique 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Christian and I don't have my children baptized. It's there choice to be baptized when the time comes and when they know the meaning behind being baptized.
Read Luke 18:15-17
2007-11-24 18:12:47 · answer #5 · answered by tracy211968 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's just like when you get a dog, you have to dip him to keep the fleas off. When you have a baby, you've got to dip it. That's why those catholics are all screwed up, they don't dip, they just sprinkle a little on the head. What good does that do? You have to totally immerse them, hold them under long enough to drown off the fleas, then let them out.
2007-11-24 18:23:50 · answer #6 · answered by krcst1 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Children or babies should never be baptized. Baptism is for people who have committed their lives to Christ. Young children and babies are not able to do that and to baptize them is not Biblical.
God bless!
2007-11-24 18:18:32 · answer #7 · answered by Devoted1 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Baby's aren't sinners. When you baptize a child, you are committing it to God and putting it under his protection. In the Catholic religion, getting baptized doesn't clear your sin, that's what confession is for. When you baptize a child you are committing it to your religion until it's old enough to decide for itself. Once you're old enough to decide for yourself, you can choose not to be Catholic or to be Catholic, whether you were baptized or not doesn't matter when you're older. Catechism is the thing that fully commits you into our religion.
2007-11-24 18:15:09 · answer #8 · answered by Ivy 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I've heard that unbaptized children go to limbo if they are not baptized to wait for Judgement Day. If they are baptized, they get sent straight to heaven. I guess it just cuts trough the spiritual red tape!
I don't agree with this, but this was how it was explained to me.
2007-11-24 18:12:03 · answer #9 · answered by mithril 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Bible says that all who accept Christ as Lord and Savior should be baptized. So at whatever age your child accepts Christ, they should get baptized. Catholics do baptize infants though.
2007-11-24 18:08:03 · answer #10 · answered by teran_realtor 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋