Ao2 Baptism
Christians teach that baptism is a Sacrament which means that it is a sign of the giving of God’s grace and salvation to a person. Christians look upon baptism as the beginning of a life-long relationship with God. Most Christians today believe in baptism and encourage it to be a tradition. Some also believe it is the eternal life because it allows a person to make a fresh start and seek a new way of life and all their sins are washed away.
In Mark’s gospel it begins with John the Baptist. He was preaching in the desert and he had an urgent message turn away from your sins and be baptised and God will forgive all your sins, (Mark 1 9-11) I think this has a lot of influence on parents who understand this statement and believe it, so they have their children baptised so that God will forgive them for their sins, throughout their lives. Also this is why Adult baptism today tends to be more popular because as people get older they want to be forgiven for all their sins and cleansed of them so instead of them just doing a reconciliation they can be baptised.
