Baptism, is it meant for children or adults.?
By angies
@angies (132)
Australia
3 responses
@edujccz (929)
• Philippines
7 May 07
It is good for children to be baptized at young age, for the reason of protection. The word" in the name of the Father ,of the son and the Holy Spirit is sacred. in anything else, and if we believe thru this word , you honor the Father, you praise the Son Jesus and trust thru the Holy Spirit and without you knowing it, the child is protected by God. in time of trouble you have someone to ask help. In the contrary if the child is not baptized, to where is your prayer for?. Remember that baptism is a sacrament and if you are a christian, will you deny your child of the gifts of God.
Now, when he become adult with your guidance and teaching, the next sacrament is confirmation, after that ,it is on their own with a freewill to judge which one is rigth, but the protection while they are young is very important.
My personal understanding only, hope it helps. Good day..
2 people like this
@angies (132)
• Australia
7 May 07
God knows a good behaving child or not and baptism doesn't make them good. Mary and Joseph were good christian people but they didn't baptise Jesus, he had to do that of his own free will at an age he desired, only he could make that decission. It is not for the parents to make that decision it is for each indvidual person to deside.
2 people like this
@jessemt35 (294)
• Qatar
7 May 07
Hello angie if God know a good or bad child untill he an adult what is the use of baptism. Even in adults if God knows me from the beggining that I am good why should I be baptized it profit me not because I am already secured that God knows me of being good. God bless.
2 people like this
@angies (132)
• Australia
7 May 07
The old testament is far older than Jesus and that is what all christans followed before Jesu's new testament was added, The Jews have the first part of the bible right they just don't want to believe in the new testament which is sad because it helps us to understand more clearly what God wants from us, bu following Jesus's example and witnessing to the world.
1 person likes this
@angies (132)
• Australia
8 May 07
That is fine but does a baby think for it self and say I want to be baptised, we always want to have our own rights but our childrens rights are taken away from them by their parents beliefs how many children have you heard say I a catholic but I don't go to meetings or have anything to do with the cathlic religion.
I was baptise in the church of England and confirmed as a teenager and went totally away from religion in my teens then when I was of a more mature age i went looking for the truth and found it as a Jehovahs witness and I totally understand why Jesus didn't get baptised until he was 30 odd.
1 person likes this
@edujccz (929)
• Philippines
9 May 07
Hello angie,
would you mind if i ask what made you convert to your present religion where you learned the truth of why Jesus was baptized at 30. Because when Jesus was born , there was no baptism yet, then how then can he be baptize if the sacrament was never known at that time? Just for curiosity.
1 person likes this
@jessemt35 (294)
• Qatar
8 May 07
Hi angie! Baptism is not a matter of rights it is a matter of salvation and grace. Indeed the child can not think for himself/herself but if you ever try to study the early writings of early christian thinker and theologians like Ambrose of Milan, Augustine, Hippolytus and the list go on and on... You will find that infant baptism is practiced by the early christian for the reason that we as humans inherited a contagion of our first parents rebellion against God in the Garden of Eden and that is called original sin. God bless.
1 person likes this
@brothertuck (1257)
• United States
7 May 07
I have alwasy seen the infant baptism as more of a christening and blessing of the child. The baptism practiced by the baptist churches always brought the image of John the Baptist, symbolically cleansing the body of sin and choosing to follow the word of the Lord. As John the baptist told others, I baptist you in water, but one will come who will baptise you in the fire of the holy spirit (I'm not good with quotes from the bible, but have read it and know the basic lines)
The adult baptism is only done when you actually choose to join the church and have your sins washed away by the symbolic water baptism and supposed baptising of the spirit by allowing the holy spirit in.
1 person likes this
@jessemt35 (294)
• Qatar
7 May 07
Hello angie. The Church Father Hippolytus of Rome (c. 170-c.236) wrote this instructions regarding baptism. I qoute "At dawn a prayer shall be offered over the water. Where there is no scarcity of water the stream shall flow through the baptismal font or pour into it from above; but if water is scarce, whether as a constant condition or on occasion, then use whatever water is available. Let them remove their clothing. Baptize first the children; and if they can speak for themselves, let them do so. Otherwise, let their parents or other relatives speak for them...." I give you what the early fathers of the church has to say about baptism of infant they are the best source of information regarding the practice because they are the first hand witness of the apostles and their practice in the early life of Christianity.
1 person likes this
@angies (132)
• Australia
7 May 07
Religious historian Augustus Meander wrote: "Faith and baptism were always connected with one another; and thus it is in the highest degree probable... that the practice of infant baptism was unkown at this period of time (first century)... That it first became recognised as an apostolic tradition in the course of the third century, is evidence rather against than for admission of its apostolic origin.
History of the Planting and Trianing of the Christian Church by the Apostles (New York 1864) Page 162.
1 person likes this
