"Baptising babies is pointless..."

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“Baptising babies is pointless...”

Some Christians believe that baptising babies is pointless, because they fail to understand the significance of what the Baptism service represents.

In other cases, Christians that are against Baptism do not agree with the features involved when being baptised, ie. Promises undertaken by godparents on behalf of the infant.

Other Christians believe that baptising babies is essential to a young Christian’s life. It magnifies the grace of God. The helplessness and vulnerability of the child is an illustration of our own helplessness before God and inability to save ourselves. Baptism offers a helping hand to save us. Another reason for which some Christians feel so strongly about the Baptism service is the fact that Baptism healthily includes Christian children fully in the life of the church. Most children parents would agree that the ideal is for a child to know and love the Lord Jesus from their earliest years. Many adults who have had a Christian upbringing would say that they have never known the time when they have not believed in Jesus, although of course their knowledge of Jesus and of the implications of following him has grown and matured over the years. It’s this concrete evidence which tips the scales in these Christian’s favour.

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Many Christians in all sincerity question the wisdom of baptising babies, even the babies of committed Christian believers.

Anglican Catholics, whose religious heritage stretches back to the earliest years of Christianity in England, believe that ‘Creeds’ (a set of fundamental beliefs) and more notably the Apostles’ Creed is at the heart of Baptism. The Anglican tradition’s baptism service preaches along the lines of most other baptismal covenant, upon review of an Anglican covenant I have concluded that it is very similar to that of the Roman Catholic service.

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